Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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has beds dipping near east at this point and many blocks of this limestone have slipped down to cover the contact. This Uddenities bed is high in the zone and is a gray nodular limestone with interbedded brown and rust weathering siltstone. The calcite in the original rock has been recrystallized, probably as a result of the post-deposition PG. 15 feature at this end of the hills, lowering the eastern end. 6/26/57/8 - Collection from brown weathering brachiopod and fusuline coquina limestone, about 25 feet stratigraphically below 6/26/57/7. {note: illustration: bed 1: 3'; 6/26/57/8 bed 2: 15'; gray shale bed 3: 1'; Brown ironstone bed 4: 10'; Shale? gray bed 5: 2.5'; 6/26/57/7} The east of the Hills are going to present problems in covered intervals and erratic discontinuous deposition. PG. 16 6/27/57 This was one hell of a hot day. Section 25 Wolfcamp hills - Measured Section-1 Sec 25 S15E° to water windmill at Neal (Taylor) Ranch S85E° to water windmill at tank east of Ranch Gaptank 1) Covered below 2) (uneven 6-8" beds). Limestone, weathers gray to yellow-brown, a shell hash of brachiopod and fusuline frags; 5.5'; Collection 6/27/57/1 (dip 16°) 3) Covered, probably shale which weathers gray brown, 37' 4) Limestone, gray to yellow weathering, lower portion (2') 3-4" nodular beds, upper portion in uneven beds 2-4' thick. Thin bands of interbedded brown shale - 17', organic fragment. Collection 6/27/57/2, Top Gaptank. 5) Covered - 57' probably gray shale with a few rusty yellowed? sand-siltstone layers, no definite bedding could be distorted. 6) Limestone, rusty weathering, Crinoidal fragments are dominant, some pockets of fusulines are present - 8'. The upper portion of this layer has black limestone pebbles in it, but have no fossils. Collection 6/27/57/3 - one block which contained a good fusuline fauna may be from higher in the section. PG. 17 7) Covered - probably shale 52' 8) Limestone gray, weathers light brown, lower 11' are rubbly becoming better bedded into undulating 3-4" layers: Upper 13' massive in 3-4' beds, biohermal limestone. The shell fragments are dominantly brachiopod and crinoids, total 24', Collection 6/27/57/4.