Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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6) Covered 3', probably gray shale & ls rubble 7) LS, brown-gray fresh surface, orange-brown weathering. shell hash of crinoids, fusulines, bryozoans. progressively finer grained near top. Upper surface is flat 1' 7/5/57/2 8) Shale, bk to blue, slightly silty, has slight putrid odor. 35', brown and variegated silt zones 1' ocasionally - (Calacuite?) 9) Covered, 53' 10) LS, yellow-brown weathering, (gray fresh) organic frag. (crinoid) - don't sure this unit is not slumped down from above. 3' 11) Covered, probably shale in great part. alot of ls rubble in upper part - 37' 12) Calcauite, brown-yellow weathering; some sand (quartz) and upper surface loaded up/ fusulines, but seem restricted to upper 1" 2 1/2' 13) LS, rubble for most part, pretty badly covered and it's possible that there are several shale intervals. 26' 14) LS, a) Calcauite, brown-yellow weathering; med sand size thryng out 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 ' flat top b) shale parting 2" to 3", gray shale c) LS, sangle at base grading up to coarser sand sizes, organic frag. crinoids brachiopods, corals, bryozoans, 5 1/2'