Field Notebook: Oklahoma 1919
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four species. Pelemites for occurs here. See the small lot of fossils. (4) Black limestone with some shale beds. This is thought to replace the black shale at Kerph Quarry. It may be or but I am not convinced of this. The thickness is considerable, maybe 30 ft main len. Saw no fossils. (5) Heavy bedded hard grey crinoidal limestone. Maybe 20 ft a core thirl. Has Pachyptera, Michelima, and Hastreeds. See the small lot of fossils. (6) Then a third series of blue and black shales with an occasional dark blue waterlime like limestone or jaws of concentric limestones. Thickness undetermined. At Belton Falls about 30 miles away the whole of these beds Speyer tells me has a thickness of 190 feet. Probably a similar thickness occurs to the north of Havre. All of this thickness is thought to come in above the un- conformity seen geologically at Kerph, i.e., above the Pithin and beneath the Pennsylvanian. I am inclined to regard all of these strata as the equivalent of the Merowe. In general what I saw of the fossils today are rather more Mississippian than Pennsylvanian. Many of the Penns fossils found by Mother do not turn up at Havre.