Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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Gap tank type area Clear & Sunny 10 loc.1 6/25/57-1 Collection from a limestone within the upper Gaptank Cong of P.King on or close by to the Type section. loc.1 6/25/57-2 - Collection on NE slope at top of P.King Upper Gaptank unit. loc.3 6/25/57-3 - 10' above collection 2 - box 8 just of brownish weathering nodular ls with interbedded yellowish shale - beds above are vandy (brownish-red) loc.4 6/25/57-4 - about 80' above collection 3 In what we believed is P.King's #1 Gaptank ls -- (this maybe his #2 ls below) This is #2! light gray to white ls, with occasional light yellow patches. loc.6 6/25/57-5 - near top of P.King's #3 ls- in one of many gray ls Shell channels? This slope has some loose fragments out which are included in collection loc.6 6/25/57-6 - 10'+15' below base of P.King's #4 Gaptank ls. -- in a brown + gray weathering ls. 11 6/25/57-7 - Collection taken at base of what we believed is P.King's #5 Gaptank ls. - Drove C.O.Dunbar to Monahans to get Santa Fe for Dallas. C.O.D. seemed pretty convinced that the Gaptank is Canyon in age and not River. Suggested that Uddenthal might be Cisco equivalent and he said yes that was what the Jurassic pockets - to. He didn't know whether the #2 ls of King's might not also be Cisco also. The problem of the conglomerate pebbles in collection came up again. This is a good point - Ref. to Australia paper might be good here. C.O. Wants more collections from the upper Gaptank type locality, also a close study of the Wolfcamp and Udendental zone in that region.