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Big Sandy. North of Camden.
By wagon from Camden to Big Sandy
and then 6 miles south to Tom Barnes is
about 10' thick,
a fine Hel dubyian exposure with
Camden above. Above a recent lime mud
deposit. See if one can drive direct to Tom Barnes and
then to Big Sandy.
The Camden is well exposed in a small
station, quarry to the west of Big Sandy. About
2-1' thick. Spirifera and Eatonica common.
It is often seen along the road the most
western road for six miles south of Big
Sandy. Forster says 5 miles S. of Big Sandy Station
on the Owen Camden Road maybe also contact between the
Hel dubyian and Camden.
Pace, Henry County, Texan.
Fourteen miles north of Big Sandy Station
(1-1/2 miles up from mouth of Big Sandy River) to
Saffords Williams Hill. The exposure
is in Bexar County side, about 30' thick.
Lowest layers Atrypa reticularis, Lepta
Anastrophia followed by Orthocerids, with
Orthostrophia (these are in the center of the
Orthocerids). Phacops occur from and above
the Anastrophic beds. Also Sophrentus.
Pate called this locality Swoznes Old
Hill.