Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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17 (12) 8/26/57 Near Canyon Nwst. Level compass; up a stream gully-- Sect. 39a [Syenite] 1 2) Ingenious intrusion ; Rhyolitic? (8/26/57/1) 1 2) Metamorphosed shales + limestones, varying dips as a result of intrusion of #1 below-- 10' 2 3) LS, slightly metamorphosed but with juvenium. very flat even if it's metamorphosed; 1'; 8/26/57/2 ; has sand blobs, crinoid stone, productid brachs. 3 4) Covered, 8', mostly shale probaby. 9/1/58/5 4 5) Shale, bluegray, wood fragments, slightly metamorphosed; 8'; 8/26/57/3 [did not break down, though] 5 6) Shale, brown, fairly silty; with 3"-6" calcarenite zones. 3' 8/26/57/4 - calcarenite zone at base. The beds here are a little syncline and they come up lighter in the stream gully. 17 cont. fair time there (73) Sect. 39b, east 50yds, across a fault in which 75' of section is removed. This removed interval is covered on west side of fault. [7) Covered, 75' probably like #6] 6 8) Calcarenite, 80', light gray to light tan weathering; very fine chert pebbles, used to large lv. pebbles. Maxvime, 8'-10' beds. 8/26/57/5 cuts 10'ward 7 9) LS, gray (dark); sandy; 2', v.f. sand to f. sand size; juvenium look like lilies or linden types(?) 8/26/57/6 8 10) Sandstone, grayish brown, well sorted fine to v.f. sand size; 6" to 3' beds. 16' 9 11) Calcarenite, 1'; dark gray; 8/26/57/; 10 12) Covered, 23' most shaly sandstone similar to #10 11 13) Cosglo; v.f. chert pebbles, matrix limestone with crinoid fragments. 2'