Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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156 10 lower part 9/2/58/4 - gas tank fan, rocks, thought it was Dingle at first, rest on greenish gray sand + siltstone sequence. Looks dark enough to call Tenne but is probably Haymond. Gel badly folded & faulted. at Southwestern edge of cliff, a brown clint couple rests directly on folded east dipping Dingle. sect 43 (clip 14; N50E strike) Dingle, Caballo, and a thin gray lime are folded, but not badly faulted. Also good brown N70E^ 1) Conglo. brown, chert + quartzite dominate (1/2 - 1") brown cement, a few dark ls cobbles 3" 0' - 15' (+) SW NE minute 2) Covered, probably light brown silt/sand - 12' 3) - Sandstone, orange-brown, x shep'd in put. a few fossil woods - (?) 3" 4) Siltstone, mudstone, shale, interbedded very sandy, gray to greenish gray color. 22' 5) like 3, with 1/4" beds + curved columns - 3" 6) like 4 2' 7) like 5 (see 9-2-58-5) 4" contains "Dome wolf canyon formation fauna" part. 8) like 4, 10' 9) Sandstone, mud to light brown some single pebbles 8" 10) --> Sandy siltstone and shales. some lenticular stained bands of ss (v.fig). 41' 11) Sandstone, light orange weathering, no internal lamination; overwiped total - 1/2' 12) Sandstone, light tan, friable, some silt limestone - 2" to 8" beds - 20'