Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
Page 48
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In Cool creek the Coy and Buntan cross 1/2 mile further than mile post 463 and then saw the stream cutting the broodfold and then the Lyeannie. At less than 100 feet above the Lyeannie Mr. Goldston found in a cordule a few small uncompressed goniatites and a Caregella sawry unmistakable lorn Carg. About 100 feet above the base first some tiny sponge spicules. Otherwise saw nothing in the way of fossils. We estimated roughly the Carey from Lyeannie up to the sandstone Tote means 2800 feet thick (from the sandstone to the bridge over Cool Creek 700 feet and probably 1800 feet to the Lyeannie). The irregularly laminated dark Carey sandstone is probably 90 feet thick. Above this sandstone we concluded to stay the Penn, and it maybe 2000 feet from the sandstone up to the so-called Hapanuelia limestone. In the lower part of these holes Goldston found a brontenia that I have, it's from 600 feet above the Carey sandstones. It is like stated here that the Carey has very different thickness in the short distance from Hoodford to Bernwyn. This may be explained by the time of erosion following the Carey and before the Pennsylvanian began.