Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 80
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Transcription
Our my muddy roads are more slow and hard driving to get to Grey Creek, but it rained all afternoon and we concluded not to try. After much labor with the car and engine we reach at 5.30 Dunfermline when we put up in the night. Morgan tells me that on the north side there are many limestone conglomerates, and that these usually called the Trogos often traced around are seen to interfinger into various levels of the Boggys. Furthermore as we approaches the close of the Pennsylvania whose groups appear made up of large field- morgan calls the Porttatoe conglomerate, and opens. These conglomerates and arkoses can make head more than 40 miles out from the Cathneels mountains. The evidence appears to be that the limestones and finally the arkose is derived from an Athneelle dome in Penn- sylvania time. That the limestone bodies fall signs up to 6 miles across could not have been transported hundreds of miles in