Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 101
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Ada, April 2 1922 Sunday. Started out in a threatening day to see the Drapanuella - Canyon sequence. About one mile South of Francks stopped to see the Franck's conglomerate and was surprised to see in it hundreds of joints and silicified Camarocrinus fossils. The Hunton is my about two-quarter mile away, and in middle Pennsylvania time the Hunton was exposed overlying at those Camarocrinus and definitely then not far away from the source of the Hunton. Today the Francks and Hunton are in fault relation with a throw of over thousands of feet. Then drove to Canyon Creek in Section 8, Township 1 N., Range 7 East. This is in a straight line 15 miles South-East of Ada and the roads go about 19 or 20 miles. Here the Drapanuella is dominantly a sandstone - shale series with several zones