Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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76 29 Sect. 29 [see p. 150 of Nb 2] Section 10 (dip 10°) (N) Covered below - float looks like bed #2 section I 1) LS, organic fragmental, crinoids - brachiopods weather light gray with tinges yellow 2 rubble zones near base - a) 14' massive b) 3' in 1' beds (gray c) 5' gray & yellow marries Top Gap tank. 2) Covered 7' some gray shale, probably all! 3) Sandstone, very calcareous (grains) Fe₂O₃H₂O acting as cement? weathers deep yellow brown. 3' There are surfaces coated with crinoid frags. 4) Shale gray with few gray siltstones w/ f. sandstone grading upward into dominant silt found over the shale - unit is essentially gray weathering throughout, becoming slightly yellow near top. 137' 5) Sandstone fine grain, yellow orange weathering 3" to 8" beds, even bedding, nearly uniform size & color throughout unit. total 53' Upper 3' are in 1' beds, paler colors than below. 6) 15' covered 7/10/57/5 7/10/57/6 22' (1) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)