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Ada, Oklahoma
Saturday, April 1-1922
Started out at 8.30 A.M. with Mapan,
Stoner and Brinad.
First examined the great cement oolites at
Lawrence to the southwest of Ada. Have seen
very extensive quarries in the uppermost Vistla, where
fossils are not easily to be seen. Much of the li.
has been diagenetically altered and appears to be
a propagasic li. or low dolomite. Other layers
are fine li. The face of the quarry may be 20
feet high. Near fragments of Rileus, Platystophin
tipata, Dreyfomera, Rafinesquina and a
very large Lingula.
Farther east among the quarries comes
the topmost beds of the Vistla in exposure. Here
Rhynchotrema capax, Plectambrites sericens
etc.
About 1/2 mile farther east are the quarries in
the upper Sylurian shales, but some of them not
the slightest fossil remains. The after ten feet
dare become indurated in their beds and concretions