Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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25) Covered, 12'. 26) Limestone; light gray to tan on fresh surface: Has nodular weathering with laminate orange coating and MnO2 dendritic patterns. 3'? poorly exposed. 8/18/57/10. 27) Covered, 16'. 28) Calcarudite, "Hess Conglomerate"; has up to 6" cobbles of limestone, very small amount (5% or less) chert. 2' to 4' beds, PG. 47 shale partings as much as 6" to 1' thick. The Gaptank #5 limestone thins to the west and becomes laminitic and very sandy, finally grading into an orange or red weathering sandstone. Beds 1,2 and 3 are equivalent (see pg. 140-141?) to limestone #3 of the Gaptank fm. and the #4 limestone if present here is not recognizable. PG. 48 8/19/57 (Sect. 39 in G.S.A. Memoir) Section 31, 300 yards east of section 30, dip NNW 25°. 1) Limestone, dark gray, organic fragmental, massive 6" to 4' beds, thin ones near top 12'. (#5 limestone of King's Gaptank). 2) Covered, 13'. 3) Limestone, light orange to yellow-brown weathering; high in clay (marlstone?); dominantly shell hash. Very rich in fusulines. 3" to 6" bedding, uneven; Collection 8/19/57/1. 2'. 4) Shale, green-gray (some bluish horizons), badly covered; 21' (8/19/57/4). 5) Sandstone, light greenish to orangish-brown; 1/2" to 4" beds; brown speckly spots. Uneven bedding; 8'. 6) Shale, brown, high in silt and very fine sand sizes: This unit thickens and thins along outcrop; in valleys it is thicker and pinches out on side of hills; [0-7']. PG. 49 Unit 5 is bent and is truncated along with unit 6 by unit 7. The pre-7 structure this suggests the dip of the pre-7 beds was steeper and that they were warped prior to 7 time. The beds were subjected to erosion fr some sort before 7. Top of Uddenites? or Gaptank 7) Limestone, medium to light gray; wavy beds 6" to 10" thick, many shale breaks in lower 3', upper part is massive. Shell fragments dominate this rock. 18'. 8) Limestone, medium gray, 6" to 1' beds, high in sand (quartz and dolosand) and silt (about 30%) more easily weathered than 7 or 9. 12'. 9) Limestone, massive, medium to light gray, shell frags. 1' to 6' beds, 21', brown spotty patches of Dolomite, 8/19/57/2. {Note: (7,8,9) could they be Wolfcamp?} 10) Shale, poorly exposed, dark gray, only local 0-2'. 11) Calcarudite, 2"-3" pebbles; 4'.