Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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PG. 112 contains large Schwagerina - 8/3/58/5 - due south of section 24 in folded and faulted belt. This is from an anthill 50 yards south or road at crest of hill. Black and color picture of Sect. 24. A large fold here at base of Sect. 24 has its axis N65°E, E limb 90°, West limb is 60-80° W. See p.22 - I doubt very much of the reef collection are from the same sequence as the measured sections. These bioherms seem to form beds in the folded and faulted portion and are therefore older than the “Wolfcamp” conglomerate and “Wolfcamp” sequence. 8/3/58/5 - from “Haymond” of King below first windgap SW of summit Dugout Mt. This is from an anthill about 300 yards east of the junction of two major washes. Seems to contain Fusuline. PG. 113 8/3/58/6 - float from shale interval above bioherm just below first windgap SW of crest of Dugout Mt. 8/3/58/7 - from bioherm (in place?) at least from the rock, beds seem to be shattered- These are probably faulted and folded prior to “Wolfcamp” time. Probably not - has S. nelsoni. Bioherm has several corals, and at least one ammonite. 8/3/58/8 - second Bioherm - smaller but is nearly vertical - corals and a few brach frags. 8/3/58/9 - north end of Payne Hills about 1/2 mile NE of spot King has map as ammonoid beds - This is “Gaptank” and is a dark gray to black limestone and dark interbedded shale - The general impression I get in the field from just looking at the fusulines and the lithology is that the younger rocks are exposed in the eastern most outcrops around the SW end of Dugout Mt. and PG. 114 as one goes eastward and northward older rocks are exposed. The lithology of the Haymond as mapped by King is apparently fairly good criterion. Collection 8/3/58/5 occurs in a limestone bed and is overlain and underlain by greenish sandy siltstone with worm burrows and tracks. About 200' above this collection if the sequence here is not too badly displaced by faults, the beds are brown- orange weathering sandstones some of which have flow rolls, but little graded bedding, although cross bedding is common. The Haymond and Gaptank form an anticline just beneath the first windgap and the beds are steeply dipping to the east. The second biohermal ledge is near vertical and possible is the steeply inclined Western link of this anticline and possibly the same bed as the first bioherm. If this is so the fossils are not the same for the second bioherm contains only corals without the fusulines and brachiopods. PG. 115