Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
Page 36
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October 21 Tuesday, Aldmore It showered much of the night and it does or this morning. Accordingly we cannot get out in the field. We hope to go at noon if it rains no more. It rained no more and we are off at 12.30 for Berwyn on the Santa Fe railway 13 miles south of Aldmore. At Berwyn we walked about 2 1/2 miles north along the Santa Fe P.R. to mile post 463. Just to the north and [illegible] in a cut we see a series of gray peculiar laminated, but thick and then redded Haell [illegible]. Here we saw a small Ostracoides, a small Calamites and a small coarsely stratified Articulcalamites. This sand- stone came with interbedded Haell shales in strata 90 feet thick. About 30 feet beneath the top of these sandstones for casts of [illegible] are common. Still higher in the shale saw evidence of one of them, and a good earthy [illegible] limestone. All of the psialites found in the small stream forests the railway. The same came was later seen on the railway. I then walked up the branch and found the Penn. [illegible] shales along the Carney sandstone blue to be sandy in zones for stratify 200 feet high, followed by soft Haell shales for several hundred feet more. These then change gradually into blue shale.