Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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15) Calcarenite, like #12, but conglomerate pebbles larger, 4.5', becomes better sorted (Collection 7/31/57/3) and finer in upper 4" to 5" flat to surface. 16) Covered 11', probably mostly gray shale. PG. 144 17) Calcarenite, yellow-brown weathering, because well cemented and with siliceous pebbles in upper 5", 1.5', Collection 7/31/57/4 from #17 and loose stuff, probably from shale just above and just below #17. 18) Shale, gray to gray-brown, slightly silty 12'. 19) Calcarenite, yellow-brown weathering; lower 8" are pebbly conglomerate a 1/2" shale break and the upper 4" to 5" are well sorted, evenly laminated quartz sand and calcite sand, fine size. Flat top with an Fe3+ oxide zone of very fine sand sizes. 1'. 20) Shale, brown-gray, 28'. Near top Collection 7/31/57/7. Near base Collection 7/31/57/8. 21) Covered, probably like #20, may have several calcarenite (gray), beds. 26'. 22) Limestone medium gray, with a large % (25-30%) Cobble conglomerate. This might be best called a conglomerate with limestone cement locally. Beds are 2.5' to 5' thick; 18'. Collection 7/31/57/5. PG. 145 23) Covered 5', less resistant zone of limestone rubble? or finer sand? 24) Limestone, massive, locally conglomerate (quartzite, limestone and chert) medium gray weathering (see 6/24/57/2); upper 3"-4" bed is fine grained, flat topped. 25' Biohermal "Hess limestone" of King. Collection 7/31/57/10.. 25) Limestone, rubble, some conglomerate cobbles - lenses of 6" to 3' beds - contains biohermal junk crinoids, bryozoans, large fusulines, brach. Collection 7/31/57/6, 3'-5'. This unit thickens to about 8' to the SW just above the Kinkajew dens - (about 200'). Section 20 continued about 200' to SW above Kinkajew dens - followed at top of bed #24. 25b) Sandstones, light brown-gray grading up into a conglomerate and organic frag. hash. Has a well defined planar top with Iron stains and cement. Tetracorals common, also Productid shell frags.; 8'. PG. 146 7/31/57 & 8/1/57 26) Covered, 15', one 8" bed of siliceous pebble conglomerate exposed in middle of unit, rest is probably gray shale (?) . 27) A series of orange-brown weathering, fine pebble conglomerate, from unsorted at base to well sorted at top, with flat upper surfaces - upper 2" are well cemented with SiO2. Collection 7/31/57/9 at base. Several beds of siliceous very fine sandstone or siltstone, 10'. 28) Shale, dark gray-brown, 3'. Collection 8/1/57/7.