Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
Page 26
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Section 25 16 6/27/57 Wolf's hills -- This was one hell of a hot day! Measured Section TSa 25 5'156" to water well at Neal (Taylor) Ranch 5'85C" to at tank east of Ranch gap tank 1) Covered below 2) LS, weathering gray to yellow brown, a shell hash of brachiopod and jurulines frags; 5 1/2'; Collection 6/27/57/1 (dep 10) 3) Covered, probably whale actual weathering gray brown, 3' 4) LS, gray to yellow weathering, lower portion(2') 3 to 4" nodular beds, upper portions are nodular beds 2 to 4' thick. Then bands of well bedded brown whale - 17', organic fragments. Top Gap tank Collection 6/27/57/2 5) Covered - 5'; probably whale with a mixture and mudstone layers, no definite bedding could be diverted 6) LS, wet weathering, Crinoid fragments are dominant, some pockets of jurulines are present - 8'. The upper portion of this layer has black LS pebbles in it, but have no fossils. Collection 6/27/57/3 - one black which contained a good juruline fauna -- maybe given lighter in the section. 17 7) Covered, probably whale 5-2' 8) LS, gray, weathering light brown, lower 11' are nubbly becoming better bedded into undulation 3 to 4" layers; clayer 13' massive in 3 to 4" beds, bioherms LS. The shell fragments are occasionally brachiopod and crinoids total 2-4'; Collection 6/27/57/4 9) Covered, 5', probably a weak LS. 10) LS brown weathering, slightly sandy 7', Collection 6/27/57/5 11) LS, gray to brown weathering 5-60' 6/27/57/5 6/27/57/4 numbers? The upper surface of #11 unit has a 1/2" cemented stick on a relatively recent exposed surface. Ref 1 Ref 2 what I believe is probably equivalent to P. King Bed 2.