Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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PG. 23 6/28/57 Section 23 Near Center of WCHs Section III in a line N30W of Taylor (Neal) Ranch 1) Upper Gaptank limestone - same unit as 3 in section II. Here it is less massive, about 8', with the middle nodular zone of unit 3 in Section II thickening up to at least 10', about 12' more is covered and it looks as if the lower massive zone of unit 3 section II is either missing or is nodular here. The upper 2-3' is a nodular limestone in 6-8" layers - becomes sandy. {note: illustration: bed 3: 13' bed 5: covered-12' bed 6: 10' bed 7: 8' to about 5' bed 8: 3'; Collection 6/28/57/1 (23-1) Top of Gaptank bed 9: covered} PG. 24 2) 34' covered - probably a gray shale - 3) Limestone, brown weathering, gray on fresh surface- This is an organic fragmental rock of brachiopod and a few coral frags. The lower bedding surface of this unit contained pockets of fusulines. Collection 6/28/57/2; 3'. 4) Covered internal - 23'. 5) Limestone yellow brown weathering, in beds 4-8", Crinoidal and fusuline coquina here, 50' to the west of the unit becomes massive and composed only of crinoidal fragments. Collection 6/28/57/3 is from base of this unit. Collection 6/28/57/4 taken 20' above base of this unit. The upper part of this unit became massive and is probably a bioherm. It tails off in both east and west directions into thin beds at the top of the western bioherm and thin beds at the base of the eastern bioherm, 33'. 6) Covered - 8' probably gray shale- Heightens to 12" but this depends whether it is between bioherms or at the top of one. PG. 25 7) Limestone, gray weathering, I take this to be the base of P.King's #2 limestone. This is a fine grained calcarenite at this point. The 2 feet of rubbly material below the base of the unit has a fusuline fauna (Collection 6/28/57/5) 4' thickness of unit. {note: illustration: bed 1: 6/23/57/1 bed 2: covered-34' bed 3: 3'; 6/28/57/2 bed 4: covered-23'; 6/28/57/3 (23-5A) bed 5: 33'; 6/28/57/4 (23-5B)