Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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bed 16: bed 17: 6" to 1'; 7/1/57/6 bed 18: 6/30/57/15 bed 19: 7/1/57/5 bed 20: 6/30/57/16 bed 21: 6/30/57/17 and 7/1/57/4 and 7/1/57/2 bed 22: 6/30/57/18 bed 23: bed 24: 6/30/57/19} PG. 36 25) a) Covered 16' b) brown ss much like 12b, with small crinoidal debris c) shale 12', with one 3" brown ss band like 20. 26) Limestone brown weathering, shale beneath- 1.5', sample 6/30/57/20 27) Shale, covered in part, 3' 28) Limestone orange-brown, few fossils 1.5' 29) Shale, yellow to orange with a few siltstone layers - 22'. Collection 6/30/57/21 (a+b) 2 sacks. Brown weathering limestone-sand near base. 30) Covered 11' probably more of 29 shale, +- 266'. 31) Hess Conglomerate. continued, bk2p PG. 37 {note: illustration: bed 24: bed 25: a) 7/1/57/3 b) c) 7/1/57/2 bed 26: 6/30/57/20 bed 27: bed 28: bed 29: 7/1/57/1 a)+b) 6/30/57/21} PG. 38 7/1/57 Took shale sample from Section IV 7/1/57/1 to 7/1/57/11 as marked on Section IV 7/1/57/12 in lower 20' of Basal Hess Conglomerate in creek bed of Geol Canyon. These are cobbles and boulders for use in determining source. 7/1/57/13 Sample of conglomerate Hess, upper 10'. The Hess Conglomerate is about 35' to 40' thick here. PG. 39 7/2/57