Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
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with their sloppy pieces of firm-stone. Often the whole makes a reddish sort good for road material. All of this firm-stone appears to be due to secondary enrichment during weathering, leaching out the lime and replacing it with more len of lim. The sand is fine, as fine as Miami Florida sand, but at times somewhat craser, so exposes it appears to be unemortality. In the case of the Eagle Ford sand thin colorful layers that have pink lith and thin limes. Also a small Arcanumus Latistus. These shales creathy into yellow shifts red shales, The Austin shale is heavy reddish white a Huest white, and under weather fractures by effoliation and cracking. Under cover it dissolves but here under the little rain fall solution very slow. The Dallas find it hard.