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2) Limestone, biohermal, dark gray to medium brown, yellow weathering silts,
chert pebbles and limestone cobbles, 2 beds, 14' (Collection 7/22/57/11).
3) Conglomerate, brown weathering. Cherts, quartzite and gray limestone,
brown sand; This unit laps up side of high (top) in #2 bed and finally covers over
the top. Strike N30E, dip NW11°, 29'. {note: illustration followed}
PG. 136
4) Sandstone, brown to gray, siliceous weathers purples, magentas and orange
locally, 14'.
5) Conglomerate, brown weathering; has sand of #4, cherts and quartzite (but
little or no limestone) medium pebbles; has the dark weather colors of #4 -
secondary! replacement, 6" to 4' beds. 74'. Moved SW along bed 5 - 100 yards,
to a point opposite creek bed.
6) Sandstone, yellow to yellow brown weathering, 1" to 3" beds, a lot of silt and
fine to very fine sand size; quartz, poorly cemented. 6'.
7) Conglomerate, pebbles of chert, quartzite and limestone; light gray-brown
sand matrix. 4'.
8) Shale, brown, some gray-blues; a 5" brown weathering sandstone top, total
6'. Collection 7/22/57/12.
9) Conglomerate like 7, 2.5', with 2 interbeds of #8.
10) like #8 with 2 - 3" to 4" conglomerate beds like 7 [8].
PG. 137
11) Conglomerate, pebbles of chert, quartzite; brown sand matrix; weathers
brown to brown-gray, 2 beds, one 2' massive, upper one is 1' flat top of fine
sands, 3'. (continued on pg. 143)
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7/25/57 - Van Horn area, Eagle Mts, east side.
Collection 7/25/57/1 - shale zone in Hueco - about lower 1/4 of outcrop - This is
James Underwood's Thesis area.
7/25/57/2 Wolfcamp? (Sample 7/25/57/2 of James Underwood U of T). NE end
of Wolfcamp hill NE of Eagle Springs Ranch House - was base of hill massive,
dark gray limestone.
7.25.57.3 (4 to 6' above 7/25/57/2)
The Hueco? is exposed in several localities here: a) In Page Twiss' area in the
Van Horn Mts. the Hueco is a dark dolomite in its entire sequence above the
PowWow Conglomerate - 800 to 900 feet. b) In the Eagle Mts. James
Underwood's area the Hueco becomes sandy in the lower and upper parts -
same dark gray limestone (dolo?) in the middle, 600'?.
PG. 138
The Hueco exposed in Page Twiss' area is a dark fetid dolostone; Echinoid
spines and some products of brachs are silicified prior to dolomization, but nearly
all other fossils have been dolotimized and either completely lost or lack any
structures; just outlines. In the Van Horn Mts. there is about 800-900' of Hueco -