Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
Page 31
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into [illegible] sandstone, I never saw a more heterogeneous mixture of materials, yet I could not make out a clear case of channelled deposits. In fact the lime cement in all of that is it seems to me precludes a cold climate. The city of Sulphur is built on the limestone conglomerate, and probably so far as can be seen here, lies in a limestone troughed conglomerate with local zones of a fine grained [illegible] sandstone. Here the boulders range enormously up to 6 inches across, and some there are none up to 12 near 18 inches in diameter. All of the boulders are rounded, more than subrounded, and yet not so well rounded as one sees on a marine beach. There are also angular pieces, and some of these very stand [illegible] among the more or less rounded boulders. This limestone (frank) conglomerate appears to be a land deposit washed down out of the Arbuckle Hills after their rising in Pennsylvanian time. There is or much preexisting (iron hardness) and some channelled that one comes to then a steep grade from the mountain. It in the first work in Permian times over the upland Paleozoic strata. At Sulphur much sulphur water issues out of the ground and one Artesian Spring is flowing at the rate of "2000 gallons per minute" This all a true