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October 19. Lemday. Sulphur in Benton's co.
Left Oklahoma City at 9.30 for Sulphur, at 10.10 or
Jared thpt Norman, on my way north to Sulphur.
North of Norman several miles one see for the first time
the deep red Permian. It does consist of a soft sande
dale in a very muddy fine grained sandstone. Its thin
bedded often laminated, occasionally rippled with the
smallest of current ripples. Many of the layers show that
they have been exposed to the air and hardened and that
the incoming water broke up the top then layer and made
angular pebbles of it. I saw no clear cases of sun-
cretely, and before small piece that appeared like
marked with rain prints. The rfg opinions see now
a worm trail showing mud falling
The ground is red all the way as one go through
Norman, Noble, Lexington on one side of the Canadian
Rim and Purcell on the other side. This rim here is
a very shallow affair about 30 miles across and looks
like a smaller Platte Rim of Nebraska. All about
Purcell are good exposures of the deep red Permian.
South of Purcell we see some bad lands red
hills.
Three miles south of Parle there is an exposure of
Permian sandstone making the core of a hill. The