Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
Page 39
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Cottna 22, Wednesday, Ardanne. Set off at 6.30 to get started for Broadfield to see the Canny and Broad field. It is a dark and threatening morning. It was 8 by the time we got started to the northward. At 7 1/2 mile north of Ardanne we stopped to collect in the Oolite [illegible] The place is beside the road and just opposite a school farm house. Here the limestone is from 15 to 30 feet thick and is a muddy crystalline limestone. As there is almost no shale faulting the limestone surfaces are badly weathered and are quite far apart. Michelinia occurs here 4 to 5 miles across. One Pardo- tus does of nature that I got in about 3 miles across. We then went on past Broadfield a short distance to within a mile of Milo. Here the Drought Permian again comes in, and I was taken to the place to see a zone of peculiar limestone 6 feet thick. On weathered surfaces the limestone appears somewhat crinoidal and in places one sees a sort of pipe structure. Under the glass it looks as if granular. In places one sees included pebbles of the same material. No fossils I any kind occur in it. At first Burton and I thought