Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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Section 15b - down dip slope and across draw and up to point which is lithologically similar and on the correct altitude to be bed #14 of Section 15a. 15) Covered 7', gray-green shale for most part. 16) Limestone, gray (light green tint) nodular, wavy bedding 7', 7/16/57/7. The upper 6" to 8" of this unit is now caliche. The caliche becomes less dominant after that. This seems to have been a horizon of higher porosity that either that above or below. 17) Calcarudite, all of about same color, probably biohermal debris deposit - 16' no fossils apparent. 3-5'+ beds - gray weathering, like 12. 18) Covered 10'. 19) Calcarenite + organic fragmental 8" to 3" beds. Crinoid stems and fusulines. 7/16/57/8, 12' weathers pink-brown to reddish brown very uneven bedding. PG. 105 {note: illustration: bed 15: 7/16/57/11 bed 16: 7/16/57/7 bed 19: 7/16/57/8 bed 21: 7/16/67/9 and 7/16/57/10} 20) Covered, 16'. 21) "Conglomerate Hess", 7/16/57/9 - a collection of cobbles from lowest exposed bed. Many shades of Limestone, dark gray or nearly black to light gray, white and black cherts, 7/16/57/10 - fusulines in with the fines of the conglomerate. About 110' thick. PG. 106 Today picture on page 96 looks like this of we can accept King's age on the #1 bed of my section 10, page 76. {note: illustration on this page} I believe the Hess Conglomerate is a number of pocket beaches. The dolomite strata probably of Wolfcamp age and exposed to suballuvial weathering. PG. 107 Section 40 7/17/57 - Allison Ranch Gaptank area - The manner in which the Gaptank limestone lens is striking. They seem to originate in the "Uddenite" zone and thicken rapidly to the east and then thin to disappearance. I wonder whether this Uddenites zone is even approximately equivalent to that of the "type" area (WCHs) Section 16, north of highway along Allison-Moore Fence - Due North. Covered below -