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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