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7/28/57 - to Big Bend Park
Coll. 7/28/57/1 - 2% So. of Marthas Ellen Rock upper mail zone; Orbitolina terana.
7/30/57
Collection 7/30/57/1 - Light gray shale beneath fresh water cl. in ripian between Palomby & Sturg Obs about 26 miles East Alpine.
Tuff dy. Escalrich Cliffs (Chp. Tex. Bull ?) -
They are now covered age to Houston Point tuff - signifier Etex #1 Big Bend Guide Book
Collection 7/30/57/2 - Is part of fresh water sequence above.
8 (part)
Sect. 8
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7/31/57
[see p. 7 + 135,+
Section 20, (cont) - dip 10° NW
P. 96# No. 2
11) Covered, 30', probably gray-brown shale for most part
12) Calcareous, greenish orange-brown weathering, poorly sorted at base, includes dark patches; wt. green quartz sand, Brach Crenoid & fusuline frag.
The lower part ex near a granular or fine pitted conglomer 4" becomes well sorted.
Collection 7/31/57/1
Wood frags common, bryozoans common. slightly muddy upper member (3'1/2')
13) Covered, 13', probably gray shale
14) Gray shale, with brown tinge: Collection 7/31/57/2; 5'
15) Calcareous, like #12; but conglomerate larger, 4'1/2", becomes better sorted (Coll. 7/31/57/3) and finer in upper 4"-5" flat top surface
16) Covered, 11', probably mostly gray shale