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Feb 9 - 1924, Saturday. Tucson.
At 8 A.M. I am at the University and join Sturman with about 15 of his students to go
in a speed truck to Picacho de la Calera
when Jones or Jan. 16.
First examined the supposedly Pennsylvania
li., and after hunting for fossils for two hours
failed to see a single diagnostic good one,
saw Productus seminetieulatus, and a
large Spirifer that maybe S. Ceneratus.
The fossils are all very poor as pseu-
domorphs. Some of the li., an entire Crinoid.
Saw a thickness of several hundred feet.
Then went to the bottom of the section
just beneath the Cambrian quartzite that termin-
ated in about 75 foot of a fine conglomerate
carrying pieces of Jasper like the one in
Pepper-sauce Canyon. It rests on the
Pinal schist, a very ancient rolling
material
that is cut by Granite.