Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
Page 37
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"that introduce one and one then very impure liny Limestone beds that in thickness are nearly always under one inch. Their cretaceous surfaces of these holes are covered with the limestone papouts. These show entrances up to the Capannela Limestone, their thickness is in the neighborhood of 1500 feet. Below the Carey Sandstone we have intensely black laminated and grey sandy shale, some of them have nodules near beds of marl clay sand, occasionally fracturing dark blue limestone. Some of these black shales, defining the sandy bands almost worth like poor coal, or rich authy in cut mucous crusts. Down to where the branch flows into a layer stream that the railway crosses are probably 700 feet more of Carey. From the bridge to the hill daring the Capannela Sandstone is about 3/8 mile all out Carey Shales. On Oct 24 we estimated the thickness at about 2300 feet. There is therefore here not less than 4000 feet of Carey and Penn. Shales and probably there may be 5000 feet, up to the Capannela The Capannela Limestone here about half a mile south of mile post 463 consists of two earthy cretaceous limestone each about 3 feet thick separated by a blue shale one about 17 feet thick in which run some thin cretaceous limestone. The fossils here are all snails and especially the hygroa. There some common