Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
Page 35
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This means that the strata beneath the Cretaceous are here folded. Meaning for south place across the Archelles it is safe to say that these cuts have a width of 50 miles at work. [Written Oct. 26-1919] The Pennsylvanian has a thickness about Andmore if about 18,000 fut. If to this is added the 3000 fut. of Carey the thickness becomes 21,000 fut. In the detailed stratigraphy see the six sections given out by Dr. L. Goldston of the Empire Co. Work out the remarkable lithic changes in the four sets of sections taken north and south of Andmore. A little coal has been seen in the Penn., and in the lower part there goes a two fut. thick of red shales. Evidently there are substantial deposits. The evidence is all in form of very shallow leas. The limestones are rare, clean biy, and the sandstones nearly always show cross-bedding and sometimes shallow water rippling. The scarcity of land plants is remarkable.