Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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This unit 14 is what I believe is equivalent in lithologic connection to bed 11, section IV. PG. 45 7/3/57 Morning went to Alpine to see about some photographs; SCS didn't have very good ones, so sent for U.S.G.S. photos. Sampled from Section V 7/3/57/8 - a rock sample from about 100 yards east of section V, from the third unit: at this point unit 3 is dipping 26° S45W. It is truncated by unit 5 which is dipping about 10° N45W. 7/3/57/9 - from Uddenites zone west side of Geologist's Canyon, loose specimens. I believe the gonatities are fairly high, pelicypods also. 7/3/57/10 - from top of #2 limestone outlier - on dip slope. 7/3/57/11 - from top of a limestone in Geol. Canyon. The question is if this is a Gaptank limestone then it would appear the #2 gray member of King's is not present here as much more then rubble at the base of his #4 bed. This is the first limestone going up stream after the creek makes the major swing to the east. PG. 46 The slope on the rather flat top of the Gray Limestone outlier lines up pretty well with the reefy beds across the Canyon. If there is a fault zone in the lower portion of Geologist's Creek it can't be very great. I personally believe any discordance can be explained as slippage in the shale (Uddenites) zone carrying the Gray Limestone member down. This seems to be the result of a syncline in the upper gaptank beds which in this and the case of p. 26 apparently control the placement of streams. The gray limestone may either thin to the west, or the unit may change lithology and add shale between 2 limestone horizons, paleo will need to be checked. If the #1 bed of Section V is Gaptank and the silty sand would fit nicely as the Uddenites zone. It would seem from the top of the Gray Limestone outlier that bed 4 maintains as fairly constant interval with bed 5 of Section 5. I would put this at about 10-12' or just about the displacement of the little N-S fault. PG. 47 If the fault up Geologist's Canyon is for real, the collection from 7/3/57/11 should be Gaptank; I suspect however it will be found to be Wolfcampian. If it is Gaptank it can be easily explained as a bed truncated by the reefy beds of the #2 gray limestone above and then by the #4 bed of King near the creek beds. At this time it seems significant that the large central part of reefs are contemporaneous and are on or near the top of a Gaptank anticline. The Uddenites zones under the outlier suggests it to could be an anticlinal or at least a high area. The fossils I found today in the Uddenites zone indicate near shore deposition. The wood in all probably is too cemented to have been carried very far to sea,