Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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136 4) Sandstone, brown to gray-brown, yellowish weathering; purples, magentas, orange locally. 14' 5) Conglo. brown weathering; has sand of #4, clasts & quartzite (but either no l/s.) mid. pebbles has the dark weather coloring #4 - 2nd day! replacement 6" to 4' beds 14' Moved SW along bed 5 - 100yds, to a point opposite bed. 6) Sandstone, yellowish to yellow-brown weathering; 1" to 3" thick, a lot of xlt and fine to v.f. sand sizes; quartz, poorly cemented. 6' 7) Conglo., pebbles of clast, quartzite, l/s.; light gray brown sand matrix? 4' 8) Shale, brown some grayish blue; a 5" brown weathering sandstone top, total 6' Coll. 7/22/57/12 9) Conglo. like # 2 1/2', with 2 interbeds of "8" 10) like #8, with 2 - 3"-4" conglo beds like #7 [8'] Hueco Mts 137 11) Conglomerate, pebbles & clast, quartzite; brown sand matrix; weathering brown to brown-gray. 2 beds, one 2' marine, upper one is 1' flat top & four wards of 3' Hueco Mts 7/25/57 - Van Horn area, Eagle Mts, east side Collection #7/25/71 - shale zone size shells - etc! Covers 1/4 of outcrop. This is James Underwood's Jennie area. 7/25/57-2 outcrop? (Suff 7/25/72 g lane interest, left) NE end of way going NW & Eagle Grays Ranch North - near canyon hill marine, dark gray l/s. 7/25/57/-3 /4 to 6' above 7/25/57/2) Like Nueces? as appears in several locations here: a) Jim Page/Jennie area in the Van Horn Mts the Nueces is a dark dolomite in its entire expanse, above the Portland Conglo 800-900' b) In the Eagle Mts. & in Underwoods area the Nueces becomes sandy on the lower & upper parts; more dark gray l/s (calc?) with middle grit?