Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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15.) Covered, 70' 16.) Sandstone, orthoquartzite, in 3"-5" beds, light-brown with darker brown staining, well sorted, very fine camellia bedding. (Old Beach?) 270', of this, the upper 200' are badly cut off, but the float indicates the same general type of lithology. many shale intervals are probably thus covered. 17.) Sandstone, orange brown - conglomerate gravelly, 30%, a few shale frags. 1' 18.) Covered, 62' 19.) Sandstone, deeply cemented, 3"-6" and shales, 1'-2', grayish: 46' 20.) Sandstone, light-brown to mid-brown, a few cong&jellies up to 2" diam. 6" beds. Coll. 8/20/57/17 Shale, 1' to 3', between. 20' top of exposure - near RR Abutment Section 34 is actually incomplete - section by R. Keijzer within Fortuna farms. The 1957 Spring Field Trip to the Dun Basin area was there and some Wolfgang's, geologic formations there sequence but gone too completely. Dun Area Lodes!! To you also just seen all to stop at the dark,