Field Notebook: Arizona, Texas. 1923, 1924
Page 63
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Transcription
The Cambrian sea came in as a sand flat of my Dallas water, and it so continued into the shales and the limestones. In the latter occurred goss of intraformational crysmmerates, the pellets were flat up to 1/2 not thick and in length up to 3 inches. All the edges were rounded. Also several goss in which the pellets are well rounded and Haeckel (see the two specimens) and at first these may be hollow rolled pellets like those of Sargassum. I mistook them for algae, then the sedim ments and especially the crysmmerates along with the communal nature of the holo- lites goss to prove that these sea bottoms were often churned up and rolled into the Haeckel pellet and intraformational crysmmets. These waters were hardly over 100 fath in depth. We are here dealing as well also in the second Canyon region with Dallas near shore flat sea bottoms. The land every where appears to lie to the east and north. The southern and western shores must lie far away.