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Oct 27, Monday, Atoka.
Started at 8.30 A.M. walk 5 miles to a road
Cutting just beyond a bridge over a small stream.
Here Tallihini chalk and shales is well exposed and
from graptolites now collected. They are of the Mos-
sourislike horizon. Also got three species of brachiopods,
making a very large Paterula.
We then went further north to the M.C. and T.
in limestone Ridge.
tallark quarries at Chockie. The railway has been
operating these quarries for 20 years and have taken
out about 100 feet of thickness & lie for nearly one-half
mile in length. The strata dip stuff to the southeast
75°, The thickness is about 125 feet. Towards the base
the limestone crumbles into thin beds and all the fossils
gather are of those lower strata. All are small and
9/10s are byssus. Otherwise the fossils are much
broken and crushed.
Harris (Oklahoma Survey Bulletin no 23) gives the
following section of the Chockie quarries. Beginning at
the top the strata are (T.1 N., R.12 E.)
Limestone
CoSlite
Chert (I should say a dense hard cl)
Argillaceous Hue li that crumbles yellow
and is composed of comminuted small bris}
This is the horizon that gave
us are the fossils
frag sand 43 "
70" ft.
3 "
15 "
131"/2