Field Notebook: Texas 1957b
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18) Shale, gray, with limonitic silt zones, - 14'. PG. 151 19) Limestone, light gray to brown weathering, silty, with interbedded shales, - 8'. 20) Sandstone, green to purple-brown, medium size grained, cross bedded - 1.5'-3' beds, with interbedded shales and silts - 35'. 21) Covered, 9'. 22) Limestone, light, brown, silty, dolomitic, 6" to 1' beds, with some thin brown shales, silicified to some extent, - 22'. 23) Covered, 12'. 24) Sandstone, orange-brown weathering fossiliferous - pelyc, brachs, algal plates, Collection 8/31/58/2 (2 bags) 3'. 25) Covered, 32', mostly green-gray shale crossbedded ss. 26) Limestone brown to orange-brown weathering, 6"-1' beds, very silty and clayey. - 8'. (Attached sheet: Sect. 29 Brooks Ranch Mbr. Lenox Hills Fm; {note: illustration: bed 15: 127'. bed 24: 8/31/58/2. bed 25: marine bed 31: S. crassiti} PG. 152 27) Covered, 7'. 28) Sandstone, brown-cross bedded, 8'. 29) Covered - 6'. 30) Limestone brown to gray-brown weathering 6" to 3' beds, very silty - 21' with interbedded silts and shales. 31) Limestone, light brown weathering, 1'-2' beds, many fossil frags including S. crassitectora zone. Collection 8/28/58/3. This is a dominantly limestone, interval 35'+ to top of tree covered knoll. PG. 153 Sept. 1, 1958 Leonard Mtn. Climbed up from Conglomerate-Terrva exposure. 9/1/58/1 - anthill in a gully about 2/3 the way up in the Gaptank - not sure any of these are from Gaptank however. 9/1/58/2 - anthills about 75' below "Wolfcamp" conglomerate Leonard Mt. Again not sure any of these really in place in the Gaptank fm here. 9/1/58/3 - slope just above highest Wolfcamp Conglomerate. 20' of shaly-silty calcarenite interval. 9/1/58/4 - 40' above Conglomerate - 2 bags. 9/1/58/5 - bed 5, Sect. 39.