Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
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than some crystalline matter. Otherwise the only fossil seen was a small Atrypa that gave me the impression of small Q. aspera. In the termond 10 to 16 feet a number of thin reddish hard limestone sticks out and these Reeds used to limit the top of the Henry house. This theory of separation has no value. Then follows the Staregan formation of the same kind of shaly limestones as the Hemphouse. Reeds gives the thickness as 82 feet. About 13 feet above base near occurs a Camerocinus, and here was also seen a large Spiridula longicostensis but with almost no plications. In the zone fossils appear more common but practically none weather out free. This takes one nearly to the top of the hills. Then comes in the Bois d'Arc series of somewhat poorer and harder limestones that weathers out as one ascends in the series more and more chart. It is harkened not a