Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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104 Section 15b - down dy slope and across and up to a pond which is lithologically similar and the correct altitude to be bed #4 of Section 15a. 15) Covered 7' gray-green shale ground part 16) Ls, gray (light green tint) nodular wavy loding 7' 7/16/57/7 The upper 6" to 8" of this unit is now calcic. The caliche becomes less dissonant after that. This seems to have been a horizon of higher porosity that either that above or below. 17) [illegible] Calcarenite, all of about same color, probably birdlimed debris deposit - 16' no joints apparent. 8-5" beds - gray weathering, like 12 18) Covered, 10' 19) Calcarenite + organic fragments 8" to 3" beds Cinocistones + [illegible]. 7/16/57/8 12' weathers pink brown to reddish brown very uneven bedding, 105 7/16/57/9 7/16/58 7/16/57/8 7/16/57/7 7/16/57/11 20) Covered, 16' 21) "Congo, Newe". 7/16/57/9 - a collecting cobble from lowest exposed bed. Many shading ls, dark gray nearly black to light gray, white + black clasts, 7/16/57/10 - funeline in with the fines of the Congo. about 110' thick