Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 31
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and in a park in north part F, D. in the upper F. D. limestones a few ammonites. The ammonites are here very common but no horn fragments one can present since all were gathered up to make ornamental stone work in a Hamm Hatch, In real every case the only whole - living chantu- is hidden away, otherwise the specimens would be about 20 inches or even more in diameter. I saw almost no other fossils. The bird bone sandstone appears like The cement appears like lime. fine grained inclined only at the top. It is a fresh sand with broken shells though lenses occur made up of shells. It is a firm bedded fine sand with green of black shale that locally are lignites full of plant fragments, from many of those black shale there are shells and clams, but saw 2 or 3. Near the tip of the barn thing then is cementing some reflect with small fissures. The whole smoothers down in a loose sand that washes away leaving the surface around