Field Notebook: Texas 1957a
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82 7/10/57/13 19 7/10/57/12 17 Collection 7/10/57/11 20 21 22 83 Between unit 12+13 sliver side surfaces were seen cutting the down dip exposed bed 12, no major displacement has taken place, but this seem rather to be the adjustment to a slight fault axis warping forming a gentle syncline near the tank. 9 10 11 7/10/57/8 13 14) Calcarenite, yellow to orange brown weathering quite quartz rich and might be best considered as a quartz sandstone, 2 1/2' 11) LS, light gray weathering, massive, fine grained, 11' 15) Cycle- a) 4" gray shell b) 1" like #4 below (at top) 12) LS, shell hash, walled in mottled gray brown concretions, byzoans, a few brucks, 1/4" to 6" beds., a few inches of shale at the base of this unit. Top of unit has brown weathering color characteris- tic of the middle upper Dolgery cycles. 15' 13) Shales in lower part (5'+2'), becoming more sandy and sandy, quartz rich sandstone in upper 2'+3', 1" shell hash collection 7/10/57/8 see note on picture p. 99 18' 16) Gray shale 9' 17) Sandstone yellow weathering, 1' beds or less; 16'; the fine sandstones have a great deal up to 40-50% fuscinules, crinoide, gastropods, 7/10/57/12 18) Covered, probably continuation of 17 [15']? 19) LS, weather gray to brownish gray, shell hash, brucks, some fusculines. [12']? 7/10/57/13