Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 63
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In Evangeline county, Louisiana in the Lafayette grarbs occur commonly chest pettles that look to Wilson (former of of Missouri survey) like those of the Mississippia of Iowa. These fossils mostly cribrid others. He will send some tr are as they are exceedingly common and coned out. Have come far. See Harris' La. report about these pettles. If these fossils are Miss, how did they come to this place? Lie on a salt dome seem- ingly. If they are Penn, maybe they could have come thru S.E. Oklahoma. From the fossils and lithology I see no transitions from the Comanchian into the Cretacens. The latter starts in with the Droodtime sands ad limite, and they overlie the chalky Comanchian limestones. If both are crustal overlaps what is the nature of the rock casting dup legiy Comanchia or Cretacens. These hmm.