Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 69
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Armore, Texas. Tuesday, March 28-1932. A dark morning and cold. Start out at 8 A.M. for the Arkacis, We first went northward to Henry House Creek about 3 miles east of Dorroford to see Reeds Henry House section of the Stanton formation. The stream falls on the hard and thick redded Chimney Hill formation. About the only fossils seen in it where several orthocones. Reeds give the thickness as 20 feet. The time of this limestone is Brass field or early Silurian. Then a break in sedimentation that one does not see it in the sequence, Than follows the Henryhouse shaly lime- stone through a thickness of 170 feet. It is a series of muddy limestones, probably with shale zones, that on the surface weather down to a yellowish color with an occasional zone of a reddish color. On fresh fracture probably the whole is a light blueish color. Saw our chalk in this series. Fossils are very rare other