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afraid I have relative little at this time. They said that Mr. Moore had agreed to
allow me on his ranch and that they believed they could get logs and samples
from a number of wells to the north. I said I would contact them later this year
after talking to C.O.D. about this subsurface angle. Their interest here is a 9 year
affair so they may have some pretty sincere thoughts toward a study. Their
primary objective seems to be 1) stratigraphic pinch outs or erosional truncation
of Wolfcamp; 2) Finding some type of PrePen structure beneath it all, they had
hopes of some stratigraphic test wells but not for some time yet. They hope that if the Low. Penn. can be worked out, the first step toward understanding the late
Penn. will be made.
PG. 32
8/15/57
Examined Hess section in Geologist Canyon, Wolfcamp Hills. King's Section 24.
1) Conglomerate (of Hess) 45'-50'
32) Covered - ? (260')
33) Dolomite, very sandy and silty, brown weathering. Collection 8/15/57/1 1'-2'
beds. [6']. Top of measured interval.
34) Limestone, shale, dolomite sequence, 6" to 2' bedding; dolomite is similar to
#3 and is dominant near bottom of unit. Shales are common throughout unit, 3'
to 6' strata; limestones, fine grained, thin near bottom but become 1' thick near
top. 75'.
35) Limestones, medium gray weathering, abundant fusulines, Collection
8/15/57/2 near top. Collection 8/15/57/3 near middle; 28'. Collection 8/15/57/4
near base. This unit becomes more sandy and silty near base, began to get a
brownish color.
PG. 33
{note: illustration:
bed 3: 8/15/57/1
bed 5: 8/15/57/4; 8/15/57/3; 8/15/57/2}
I believe bed 4 = P.King's bed 3, section 24; p. 61, and bed 5 is covered portion
in King's bed 4.
Collection 8/15/57/5 - Hess fm. about 1 mile N5°E of Massive #2 limestone unit
overlooking Neal Ranch House, at the site of an abandoned windmill. The lower
portion of the Hess is exposed here, this is probably the upper 25' of King 260'
covered interval to the west. This is sampled to the NW of old WM site across a
fence, (30' NW).
PG. 34
see also pg. 58
Collection 8/15/57/6 - float high in the "Gaptank" of King near road 1 mile east of
Deccie Ranch.
Collection 8/15/57/7 - from upper most limestone-conglomerate bed at same
locality as 6 above.