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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