Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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4) Shale, light brown silty, and yellow-orange iron stained calcarenites 6", with numerous fusulines (Collection 9/3/58/1 near base) 16'. 5) Covered - probably like 4 - 35'. ( a few scattered flat outcrops suggest same fusulinid types). 6) Conglomerate many chert and limestone pebbles <3" diameter, orange-brown sand matrix with fusulines (S. linearis) - 8'. 7) Covered, probably shale, and limestone interbedded 100'+-. Collection 9/3/58/2 float. 8) Limestone, in large part organic frag., upper [25']. 9) part has limestone cobbles in it. - [10']. 10) Covered, limestone and shale probably 40'. 10) Dolostone, brown weathering [40] overlain by Leonard Mt. sect. shown on page 148. This interval 6-9 apparently thickens to the east along the face of Leonard Mt. The massive conglomerate Sect. 12, bed 12, there is represented in section 44 by 8' (bed 6) but the shales are largely a lateral equivalent of that conglomerate. The limestone in the eastern PG. 161 point of Leonard Mt. just above the Conglomerate are biohermal reefs and are cross bedded and thin toward the west to Sect. 44, thus beds 7 and 8 are its lateral equivalent. The massive dolostone thins toward Sect. 44 by losses of thinly bedded limestone off its upper surface. Just west of Sect. 44, the dolostone is nearly completely missing. The northern spur of the hill west of Iron Mt., like most of the rest of the hill is covered by terrva blocks. The first beds exposed below the limestone sequence are folded Gaptank containing very small Triticites. There is apparently trough or syncline of Missourian age rocks in the triangle between, SE Leonard Mt., southern tip of Iron Mt. PG. 162 Sept. 4, 1958 The Dimple near the highway at southern edge of the Neal Ranch property dips about 30°N, but at the eastern end where the highway passes through it looks as if the darn thing is an overturned anticline because you can trace the beds around from one limb to the other. There is a system to NE treading faults which began near this place and continues into the first little Dimple hill to the east. Then the beds are faulted and folded in a beautiful sinuous pattern. The Dimple limestone in this area contains a lot of upper Caballos chert fragments. It is silicified in bands and weathers to various shades of browns. It has flow custs but not apparently fossils. Some of the deep black chert beds are reminiscent of the Tenus. PG. 163