Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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{note: illustration: covered below bed 1: friable ss, with much greenish fines. 12'. bed 2: 2 pictures; dark orange-brown ss, very hard, 14' (x-beds) bed 3: orange and gray sandstones, one or two resistant beds, 30'. bed 4: orange-red weathering sandstone; 3'. bed 5: gray clay or shale; 10'. bed 6: 8/20/57/12; limestone, uneven beds, 3"-6" much clay; 18'. bed 7: 8/20/57/11; limestones and marls, 3" beds, very silt an clay rich at base; 47'. bed 8: green shale and limy sand and siltstones, crinoid stems; 18'. bed 9: very fossiliferous marl(green) 15'. bed 10: 8/20/57/10; limestone, fusulinid; 2'.} PG. 57 Further to the east the calcarudite rests on older and older beds apparently. Within a mile (see Section 29) to the east, this (erosion removal in pre-Hess time) calcarudite began working its way higher in section, but still large valleys are apparent in the Wolfcamp? Reef. Gaptank looses shales and grades into what might be referred to as an Uddenite zone based on colors. Orange-brown ss are cross-bedded. Beds 14 of Sect.33, is probably equivalent to bed 9 of Sect.32, but might be as old as Sect.32 bed 7 but doubtful. Beds 8 through 10 of Sect.33 probably represent covered interval of Sect.32. Bed 7 might be included in this grouping also. PG. 58 see also pg. 34 (4 miles +/- west of Marathon on U.S. byway) 8/20/57 cont'd. Afternoon, see page 34. Section measured up east flank of anticline beginning 150 yards SSE of Windmill, 1.5 miles on U.S. 90 east of Decie Ranch House. 1) Sandstone, medium grained, iron stained. 1/2" to 2" beds with interbedded shales. 40'. 2) Sandstone; very coarse to coarse grained, 6" to 8" beds; with interbedded shales. 24'. 3) Conglomerate; fine to medium pebbles, up to 1" diameter; orange-brown weathering; 2'. 4) Shale and siltstones, poorly exposed, 25'. [5] (6) Conglomerate; rich in lime pebbles, a little gray for that reason; boulders up to 1' in diameter. Matrix looks like reworked limestone; 4'. [6] (7) Covered, 100', mostly sandstones and shales in thin beds. 8/20/57/13, a piece of float from thin interval.