Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
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October 17-1919, Friday A fine cool morning. After once then we hom at the Empire Building, and was shown the fine Cosmic Arms on the upper or south floor. We are off at 12 for Oklahoma City, the train being late 1/2 hours. Then we go by truck to Norman to see the fossil collections at the State University. Breger is the very guide until about Thursday when McCray turns up. This morning in ten minutes saw Professor Moore of Kansas University. I learned that he had not changed his mind as regards to the lower shale Band. He thinks that are is one indissoluble series and if say Pennsylvanian age. I deliver that he is wrong in that the lower shales are of Tenny- essee an age. Breger says he never has seen contact between the laron shales and the Marble Falls. Certain we can such a contact on the stream on our way to Rush/ Creek in the San John county. Look to Oklahoma City at 6:30 instead of 4:30 P.M. Oklahoma From about 10 miles O.W. of Bartlesville to Hominy (25miles) one sees a number of cuttings of leary bedded sandstones and occasionally thin limestones. On the Kansas line of the river, the limestone layers are parallel with bottom sandstones, but from 20 to 40 miles south one of our there have changed over to shales. Not only this the sections thicken to the South, but become muddier and sandier.