Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
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October 31. Friday. Muscogee-Haunt It thundered and rained hard several times during the night, but this morning it is bright and warm and heavy clouds in the sky. It may shower on us today. We took the 8:30 car for Fort Gibson and then at 11 a.m. on the Iron Belt branch of the Missouri Pacific the train for Haunts. This is 7 miles south of Fort Gibson or about 7 miles south east of Muscogee. The exposures are the banks of the Caddoasas River along the railway. (1) At the top of the dice occurs thick bedded Penn- sylvanian sandstone. At the base of this sandstone is a thin highly milliforms shaly limestone that has many small Producti, Lophophyllum miliiferum and algal growths. See the litho parts. (2) Then a blue shale gone probably 20 feet thick. I saw no fossils in it. It probably belongs to the Choctaw series below. Choctaw series. (3) Heavy bedded gray to blue crinoidal limestone with some thin zones of blue shales, seemingly from 40 to 50 feet thick. It is impossible to get much for fauna here, or places the limestone weathers down into a rotten thin bedded mass yielding many small bachi spores and