Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
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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