Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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58 [Field] Section 34 See also p 34 None (4 miles west of Marathon on U.S highway) 8/20/57 cont. afternoon, see page 34. Section measured up east flank anticline beginning 150 yds SSE of Windmill, 1 1/2 miles on U.S. 90 easty Decie Ranch Home, 8) Sandstone (+ Conglomeratic Locality); contains many shell fragments, light tan to orangeish brown. Coll. 8/20/57/4 ; 7' 1) Sandstone, med grained, silicified. 1/2" to 2" beds with interbedded shales. <10' 9) Sandstone, micaceous with few quartz cinders replacement ?). many shell frags and shale, strongly fissured ; 55' 2) Sandstone; v. coarse to coarse grained, 6" to 8" beds; with interbedded shales. 24' 10) Sandstone, yellowish tan, silicified joints, a & band of darker silicification. Conglomeratic to about 25%. 3' 8/20/57/15 3) Conglo; fine to med. pebbles, up to 1" diam; orange-brown weathering; 2' 11) Covered, 15' 4) Shale + siltstone, poorly offsetted, 25' 12) Sandstone, tan, coarse to v.coarse; much lime in young shell frags. 8" 6) Conglo, rich in lime pebbles, a little grey for that reason; boulders up to 1' in diam. matrix looks like rounded cl.; 4' 13) Covered, 35'; several v.coarse sandstone, and a poorly consolidated congl. near top. 7) Covered, [illegible], mostly sandstones + shales in thin beds. 8/20/57/13, a piece of float from this interval. 14) Sandstone, most no shell frags; yellow tan weathering, chert & quartzite pebbles. [illegible] up to about 40%. Two units - 8' 8/20/57/16