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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 -