Field Notebook: Arizona, Texas. 1923, 1924
Page 68
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my coarse conglomerate, many of the pebbles are from 2 to 6 inches long and all are well rounded, reddish and white quartzites make up most of the pebbles; then a some jasper, ifreons rocks and tale (like the slate in which the Congl. it), and then maybe some granite or green present. The basal five feet is a coarse sand with occasional pebbles but above 5 feet the whole mass is a troughed bed. At times it is distinctly bed- dded and the shale looks like one bed from the way it heals up but are small beds in the whole throughout its thickness. It makes the base to the Cambrian quartzite. Directly on the Cambrian rests the dark blue magnesian limestone of the Upper Ordovician. Less than 3 feet above the base we saw an abundance of Eridophyllum, some small cupolas,