Field Notebook: Texas 1959

Ross, June
1959
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doc 3/8 Typed from original by C.Ross in 2002 +/- BOOK 3 Leonardian and Wordian notes (and a few other notes; Oklahoma, revisted some Wolfcampian sections, etc.) C.A. and J.R.P. Ross, Summer 1959 PG. 1 7/8/59 Brooks Ranch Section 2 1) Shale, blue-gray, 1/4"-1/2" bands of brown siltstone - 10'. 2) Covered - 15'. ----- Top of Lenox Hills fm <-> Base of Leonard ----- 3) Limestone - light gray to light gray weathering 3" to 2' beds, very fine fossil hash for most part - fusulinids in thin beds within this unit. Collection 2-3A - 8' up Collection 2-3B - 22' up Collection 2-3C - 37' up -- shale interbeds gradually thicken to 6" or so - 48'. 4) Limestone, like below and shale, light brown to light gray - limestone are 1' to 1.5' thick, shale beds are 1.5' to 3' thick - 27'. 5) Limestone, light gray to light brown, very fine grained, clayey and silty - 3" to 2' beds - Collection 2-5A - 12' Collection 2-5B - 35' PG. 2 Collection 2-5C - 52' up; --total for unit--95' 6) Dolostone, light brown weathering; and shale (covered mostly) - light brown- grey very fine limestone near top 1' to 3' beds -
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Collection 2-6A - 33' up, Coll. 2-6B - 85' up------- 112' 7) Limestone, light gray-3' to 6' beds, few and thin shale interbeds. Coll. 2-7 -- ------------------- 32' 8) Limestone, light orange-brown weathering, very fine frag.; 3' to 5' thick separated by 2-7' shaly intervals. The limestone have a "Staffella" fauna, and locally scattered "fusulinids" --- 90'. Cyclothems—10 to 12 - get progressively more shaly toward top of unit. 9) Limestone, orange-brown weathering, 1' to 4' beds. Omphalathrocus type gastropods. PG. 3 7/9/59 near base - fusulinids recrystallized Collection 2-9A - 42' up (Top of ridge 140') Collection 2-9B - 145' up Limestones become progressively more silty and change to light gray weathering. Collection 2-9C - 160' up Collection 2-9D - 185' up; total -------- 215' 10) Limestone and dolostone, orange-brown weathering - very silty - 2" to 6" beds - shale interbeds up to 1'. Collection 2-10A - at 5', Saddle at 80' Collection 2-10B - 105' up Rose colored dolo 3' separated by 4' of orange weathering silt-clay stem. Cyclic beds become. {note: illustration: bed 2: silty limestone (+-) bed 3: silt-sand, silt-clay bed 4: dolo pink to orange} PG. 4 fusulinids are rare - recrystallized when found. Gastropods - brachiopods and ostracods, locally abundant. - 187'. 11) Shale, light gray, and limestone, light gray - shale - 2-5' beds. Limestone - 1/2 to 1' beds. Collection 2-11A - 5' up. at 35-50' Ophalotrocus outlines common limestone is porous and recrystallized). - 89'. 12) Limestone, conglomerate, well sorted - 25'.
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13) Sandstone, light brown silicified crinoid stems and brachiopods well sorted, fine grained - grade vertically into calcarenite. Collection 2-13A - 32'. 105' top of ridge to saddle - thickness of unit--158'. PG. 5 14) Dolostone - brown-gray, porous, sacchoidal, weathers to pitted surface - 3 to 6' beds - 10'. 15) Limestone, light gray, 6" to 2' beds - little in the way of shales or siltstone. 2-15A - 42' up 2-15B - 65' up Several different limestones in this unit - all are very fine sand size or lutites limestone. The more rubbly beds are white, sand size and are brown-gray. 4 or 5 alteration of grain size. - total for unit - - 205' 16) Limestone, orange-brown weathering, [relict outlines of fusulinids (abundant) 5' at base]. Like 15 below. Collection 2-16A - 53'. [at 65' a mottle quartz ss. bed with shell fragments] [ at 97' - silty bed 1', brown-orange, brachiopods]. Collection 2-16B -at 185'.--- total for unit --197'. PG. 6 17) Sandstone, orange-brown weathering very silty, calcareous cement - 3" to 1' beds. at 30' a shell hash - recrystallized, no fusulinids, but has crinoid columns. --------------42'. [base of Leonard Facies?] 18) Limestone, gray-brown weathering, 1' to 3' beds, pock marked, silt and fine calcarenite for most part. [22' recrystallized fusulinids abundant] [ 154' and 3' conglomerate bed, including quartz, quartzite, chalcedony pebbles to 1.5"" diameter].---157' [West?] Afternoon looked at the rest of the Leonard fm., lower part of Word fm. There isn't much difference between the Hess facies and these upper units this far east [west?]. King's Sect. about 2 miles east is supposed to be quite markedly different in the 2 facies of the Leonard fm, but can't say that is true here. PG. 7 {note: attached illustration of beds} [From the top of these hills one can see beds in the Leonard fm thicken and thin within short distances. The units of brown-gray dolomite limestone may change
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from 120' to 0' thick in 300 yards. Thus there seem to be few "key horizons" in this interval - We have 3 or 4 chert pebble conglomerate zones near the top of the Leonard, a couple of conglomerates in the Hess facies - and that is about all. Even these are probably not of to great a regional significance as they are mostly 3 to 6" conglomerate lenses (near the top of the fm), and the ones lower are calcirudites with locally derived pebbles and cobbles of limestone. 7/10/59 18) cont. chert frag. scattered throughout upper 150'; pebble bed at 190' - 3" pebble band - ----------293'. 19) Limestone dolomite, light gray to light brown weathering, 1/16 - 1/8" laminate of limestone alternating with dolostone - 2'. Dolostone [algal laminae?? supratidal?] PG. 8 20) Dolostone, light brown pitted surface - 15'. 21) Like 19 - 8' [algal laminae?]. 22) Like 20 - [20-28' up - quartz frag. conglomerate thin pebbles - 74']. 23) Limestone, light gray, with some 1/8" bands of irregularly bands of dolomite, 6" to 1' beds - Top of ridge (Fulk ranch) Locally angular limestone pebbles and cobbles make 6" beds. 24) Dolostone brown-gray, with Leptober outliers, in 6" to 2' beds pebble conglomerate 6' up 3" band - 37'. 25) Limestone, brown-gray, shelly, Collection 2-25A - 5' up. PG. 9 Collection 2-25B - 24' up - 3" bed of fusulinid "cochina" [P. iveri Collection] - 42'. 26) Limestone, light gray, poorly bedded. 2' to 3' beds, weathers crumbly - [65' up - crinoid columnal hash - 2'] [local intraformational conglomerate - limestone pebbles] - 185'. 27) Sandstone, brown, red-orange, very fine quartz sand - 5'. 28) Limestone, blue to purple-gray, irregular wavy bedding- 42'. 29) Limestone, light gray, massive 2'-3' beds, excellent silicified faunal of gastropods, Brachs ?, pelecypods. - 12'. PG. 10 30) Limestone, light gray, to white, fossils replaced by calcite, 4' to 6' bed, 30' (Cretaceous K?). PG. 11 7/10/59 Allison Ranch, Section 1 Covered below on this west side of road - 1) Limestone, brown, silty and sandy, 3" to 1' beds - 4'.
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2) Sandstones, cream, lime cement, cross bedded, 3'. 3) Limestone, dark brown-gray, - 3' black, dense. 4) Covered - shale and marly limestone. 18'. 5) Limestone, like 1, silicified fossils - 8'. 6) Covered - 7'. 7) Limestone, like 1 and shale above it, collection 1-7 [Fusulinids] 5'. 8) Limestone, like 1- gastropods - 1'. 9) Covered - 8'. PG. 12 10) Limestone, gray-brown, 2" to 6" bedding, 3', 6" of rubble beneath - Collection 1-10. Fusulinid cochina - 4'. 11) Limestone - yellow-brown, vertical fracture - rubbly weathering, Collection 1- 11. - 5'. 12) Covered - 9'. 13) Limestone, brown, fossil hash, fusulinids and Ornaphalotrochus gastro - 1'. 14) Covered - shale? - 4'. Collection 1-14. 15) Limestone, like 10 - 1'. 16) Covered - 3'. 17) Limestone - like 10 - 2'. 18) Covered - 4'. 19) Shell-hash - everything in gastropods, echinoids - 6". PG. 13 20) Covered - 10'. 21) Limestone, yellow-brown, fine grained calcarenites - Collection 1-21 - 2'. 22) Limestone, light yellow-gray, marly - 3" to 6" beds - 5'. 23) Covered - 29'. 24) Limestone - dark gray, 6" bedding - recrystallized fossils - 8'. 25) Covered - 12'. 26) Limestone, yellow-brown weathering and fresh, graphic recrystallization - part - 3'. 27) Covered - 15'. 28) Limestone, gray-brown, 1' to 2' beds - fine shell hash - 10'. PG. 14 29) Covered - 37'. 30) Limestone, light brown, indistinct lamination, 6" to 1' beds - 7'. 31) Covered - 13'. 32) Limestone, light yellow-brown - 4'. 33) Covered - 11'. 34) Limestone, medium gray-brown, 3" beds - 3'. 35) Covered - probably more shaly interval of 34 - 12'. 36) Limestone, orange-brown, 6" beds, silty and sand (very fine grained) - 8'. 37) Ss., white to very light gray, cross bedded - 15'.
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38) Limestone, yellow-brown, very sandy, massive - 3'. PG. 15 39) Covered - 8'. 40) Limestone, brown-gray. 3" beds, recrystallized fossils - 2'. 41) Covered - 7'. 42) Limestone, medium gray-brown, 6" beds small fusulinids? 3'. 43) Covered - 4'. 44) Limestone, light brown-gray, silty, recrystallized fossils, several shale beds 6", beds 6" - 12'. 45) Covered - 11'. -------------Subtotal 356' 46) Limestone, light gray, fine grained, dense - 2'. 47) Covered - 4'. 48) Limestone like 46 - [2'?] 49) Covered - 6'. PG. 16 50) Limestone like 46 - 1'. 51) Covered - 2'. 52) Limestone, orange-brown, silty, shell hash - [2'?]. 53) Covered - 22'. 54) Limestone - brown-orange, sandy and silty, 6" beds; and shale 4' to 6' beds - 24'. 55) Limestone, fusulinid cochina, gray-brown, 6" beds. Collection 1-55 - 2'. 56) Covered - 9'. 57) Limestone, dark gray -shell hash - 6". 58) Covered - 8'. 59) Limestone, like 57 - 1'. PG. 17 60) Limestone, orange-brown, sandy and silty - 2'. 61) Covered - 3'. 62) Limestone, gray-brown, sandy, silty, shellhash, 6" beds- 1'. 63) Siltstones, brown to yellow weathering, partly covered, - 17'. 64) Sandstone and siltstone - 2'. 65) Limestone, light brown-yellow, 1' beds - 3'. 66) Covered - 37'. 67) Ss., purplish-gray weathering - 2'. 68) Limestone, gray-brown, shell hash, 3" beds - Collection 1-68 - 61'. ------------subtotal 160' 69) Ss., orange-yellow weathering, 1' beds - 3'. PG. 18 70) Covered - 10'.
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71) Ss., like 60 - 9'. 72) Shale, gray in 5-15' bed, alternating with ss in 6" beds - 53'. 73) Ss., like 69 - 3'. 74) Shale, gay; friable ss (white and purple) and 6" ledges of resistent ss - 38'. 75) Ss., like 69 - 3.5'. 76) Covered for most part - some purple-brown limestone with large calcite crystals, and ss. - 22'. 77) Ss., like 69 - 2.5'. 78) Shale and Ss., (orange) - 22'. 79) Ss., gray to brown, cross bedded - 6'. PG. 19 80. Ss., orange-brown, like 69 - 12'. ---------Subtotal 184' 81) Limestone, light to medium gray, chert frags, common, 2' to 3' beds. [27' up an orange-brown weathering silty limestone] - 45'. 82) Ss., - light brown - grades vertically into silty fine grained limestone {note: illustration followed} - 15'. 83) Like 82 - 17'. 84) Like 82 - from limestone at top-Collection 1-84 - 12'. ---------Subtotal 44' 85) Limestone, gray-brown, 6" to 2' beds fossil hashes - 25'. 86) Like 82 - 12'. Limestone has algal plates. PG. 20 87) Limestone, blue-gray, 3" to 6" beds, fine shell hash, recrystallized fusulinids in a few beds - 35'. 88) Covered - one or two thin limestone ledges - 22'. 89) Limestone, medium-gray, ironstone nodules common, 6" to 2" beds, fossils recrystallized. - 35'. ---------Subtotal 92' 90) Shale and Ss., - 7' to 10' bed alternating with limestone, dark gray - 52'. Traversed NW 150 yards. 91) Covered - 11'. 92) Limestone, medium gray, brown "tubes" on weathered surface. 1/2'. 93) Covered for most part, ss. orange, limestone purple and siltstone yellow, outcrop in patches - 3.5'. ---------Subtotal 95.5' PG. 21 94) Limestone, medium gray, 2" to 2' beds with some covered intervals - 34'. Calcite crystals - replaced fossils? 95) Covered - 7'. 96) Limestone, mottled gray and orange-brown weathering 3" to 6" beds - 11'. 97) Covered - 21'.
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98) Limestone, medium gray, silty and sandy - 2'. 99) Largely covered, probably siltstone, also every 4' to 10', a 6" ss (orange- brown) crops out - 48'. 100) Limestone, light gray, very silty, sandy, clayey, persist at beds - 2'. 101) Shale, largely covered, and Ss. 2 beds, orange-brown - 8'. 102) Covered, except for 3, 6" beds of ss - 31'. 103) Ss., orange-brown, limy cement, massive - 2'. ---------Subtotal 122' PG. 22 7/12/59 Section 3 Western part of Brooks Ranch remeasured King's Sect. 26 (probably closer to sect. 27 of King (King's 30) His bed numbers as shown in his sec. 26. King's beds 9) = S. crassitectoria zone with large Omphalotrochus Collection 3-(9)A first appearance at base of bed Coll. 3-(9)B - 35' up. -----------108' 10) Collection 3-(10)A - 5' up. Collection 3-(10)B - 50' up. ------270' 11) Double Ledge Coll. 3-(11)A - 2' up. 12) Collection 3-12X - 2 bag 15' up. Collection 3-12XA - 35' up. Staffella are common throughout the lower beds - (9) through (12) 13) Second ledge Coll. 3-13-A - 30' up. PG. 23 14) Coll. 3-14A - lower limestone ledge Coll. 3-14B - top of unit. Coll. 3-14C - algal bed. 16) Coll. 3-16 - 15' up. Coll. 3-16B - 35' up. 17) Coll. 3-(17) Coll. 3-17B - in section, 50' up. Base of King's fossil bed is a conglomerate. In Coll. 3-17B fusulinid occur with gonatite,s camacatochid, Omphalot, Thindeus. 18) Coll. 3-18A - base of bed we think King's pisolite bed, pisolites are fusulinids with algae coatings. Coll. 3-18B - 35' up. PG. 24 Near top of King's bed 19 or in the base of bed 19 - red siliceous shale and siltstone - 10' +- thick.
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The lower part of King's section was much easier to follow than the upper part. This might be in part the result of the topography for beds 14 and higher are exposed on the top of the mountain. Here again there seems to be a change in lithology at the interval of the Hess fossil bed and just above and below - Thus, although we tried to follow the route of the measured section it is possible we missed it in the upper units. The fossil bed is a pretty poor unit here and is not the resistant cliff it is to the west. Fusulinids (often recrystallized) really make up a lot of this interval above and below the Hess fossil bed. PG. 25 7/14/59 With Cooper, Grant, Skinner and Wilde, and Stehli. Collected from Hess ranch horst and from the Word about 1 mile NW of Hill 5779 north of Leonard Mt. Word 1 limestone - 35' - 3 collections. Word first shale Collected 5-2A Word - 35' up. Word first shale Collected 5-2B - 45' up 5-2C - 65' up Limestone becomes more abundant and the upper 50' are 2' to 3' limestone beds - Collected 5 -3A - 15' up. Collected 5-3B - 20' up. --------Total 140'. Word limestone - position of second limestone - Collected 5-4 - ------- 7'. Shale---------------------155' Word - 1' beds of limestone - Collected 5-5A - [near base] Collected 5-5B - 5' up. --------10' [I think this is what the notes mean.] PG. 26 Shale --------- 20' Limestone - Collected 5-6A. ------2' Shale ----- 20'. Limestone - base third Word limestone- Type locality of Paraf, sellardsi according to Skinner. Collected 5-7A. ---- 3'. Shale - 12'. Cephalopod zone - 2' limestones at base of next limestone, medium gray (upper part of third Word limestone[?]) - no fusulinids ------ 65'. The first Word limestone is thinning to the NW - mainly at the top by intertonguing with siliceous shale - The limestones just below Word limestone 2? are fine
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grained lutites, and a few 6" limestone are rare (2 or 3) between second limestone Word and third limestone. Cooper pointed out a high Leonard limestone locality just north of the road up Gilliland Canyon at the base of the Word fm. PG. 27 It seems that Cooper's "Hess Ledge" can be traced around the end of the ridge behind the Hess ranch House and behind the horst to a point opposite the gap between the hills in the horst. He doesn't find this fauna on the front of the limestone escapement to the south (Hess escapement) because in his words "it isn't the right lithology". Thus he would rule out the idea that his fauna occurs in several horizons. Wilde is using the first Leonard limestone of King (1930) as equal to the Hess fossil bed. - This seems to solve a few problems - but I wonder how many? The section we measured in the Word seems to best fit in with King's 1930 Sect. 18, p. 71, but this on depositional strike 2.5 miles +- to the NE. PG. 28 7/15/59 [Old Word Ranch] Split Tank Collection 3-(19) from upper dolomitic limestone in Hess facies - most of this is a crinoid cochina - 15' below top. (maybe in lower limestone of Leonard). Collection 3-(2) Leonard -[3-13]. The upper beds of Leonard (2) have abundant fusulinids. Road to Red Tank Word first limestone - has limestone cobbles in the upper unit. Overlain by 15- 20' of siliceous shale followed by dolomitic #2 limestone. Collection from float near top of first limestone. Collection - 4 to 5' above Word limestone #2. PG. 29 The fourth Word limestone and the Vidrio are dolostone facies for most part here. They like the Upper 250' of Hess facies locally they have abundant relict outlines of fusulinids but we couldn't find any that were well preserved. The Split Tank Leonard section is faulted in several places and we were able to follow King's section in only a general way. Cooper said each limestone was a lense which pinches out within a short distance and each of these apparently contains a distinct brachiopod assemblage. PG. 30 7/16/59--Hess Ranch Loc. 2 Word limestone; second limestone by the road north of the horst - This is apparently second or third limestone - in the field I judged it to be the second limestone - or #1.
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Loc. 3 Word 4 limestone - [Collection] A-12' up in ledge probably #3 [Word Limestone]. 3/4 mile up valley [Collection] B-16' up in ledge, from earthen tank. This is not too close to the massive beds at the top of the ridge - which King calls Vidrio - say 125' to 150' below the Vidrio - The sequence is a silty, dirty limestone in 2" to 6" beds with a few scattered fusulinids in some of the more indurated beds - [See later page for Word 4-Vidrio Section.] PG. 31 Road Canyon, East end-meager collection from Word third limestone --------35' up (A) {note: illustration: bed 1: 3rd limestone, goniatite bed, --35'. bed 2: orange-brown ss., with a few thin (6") yellow-gray limestone.----250'. bed 3: limestone silicified - 6'. bed 4: shale or covered ---145'. bed 5: limestone 7' silicified fossils. ----7'. bed 6: Ss., orange-brown, ---120'. bed 7: dolo-limestone, ---25'. bed 8: Sandy dolomite limestone, ---18'. bed 9: dolo-limestone, -----3'. PG. 32 There is a fault cutting the SE face of section at Road Canyon - also several Terra Blocks have dropped down. The Word 4 limestone lenses are just about gone here with the Vidrio dolo. lying conformable but with an abrupt lithologic change. [probably unconformity here] PG. 33 7/17/59 Sect. 5 Leonard Mt- 0) (see p. 36, 2 pages over) Covered below - mainly dolomitic and limestone interfingering in tongues and patches. 1) Limestone, medium to dark gray or fresh surface, massive 10 to 20' beds, Sacchinella zone of G.A.Cooper, weathers to rounded surfaces, one 5-6' zone of shaly 1' limestone beds 65' up ---112'. 2) Limestone, dark gray, 1 to 2 foot beds, crinoid and bryozoan fragments - 43'. Leonard Formation± 3) Limestone, medium to dark gray, 6" to 2' beds, caps ridge, a few pits, angular weathering - conglomeratic locally - 37'. Collection 5-3. 4) Limestone, dark gray, 3" to 1' beds - 12'. 5) Calcirudite, 4" cobbles, with 4' of dark gray 6" limestone, in middle - 34'. top of ridge. Collection 5-5 Leonard anthill top of ridge. 6) Limestone, light gray, shell hash, silicified in part - 3'. [Wilde's locality - Collection 5-2 gully probably about bed 2].
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PG. 34 7) Covered inpart, thin limestone (dark gray) and siliceous shale - King's fault zone - but no fault here. Silty limestone and shaly limestone in part - 18'. 8) Calcirudite - light gray, massive, 2-5' beds, 16'. 9) Calcirudite, dark gray limestone matrix, 6
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26) Siltstone, yellow-orange, becoming near top was a fenestellid heaven ---------24'. 27) Covered, mostly gray shale ---- 87'. 28) Conglomerate, chert frags, brown weathering, many bryos and brachs silicified ---- 1.5'. 29) Covered, mostly gray shale and a few 6" silt and s.s. (orange) bed-shell hashes - ----146'. 30) S.s., orange-brown, brach shell hash, Collection 5-30 (Leonard ) - ---------12'. 31) Covered - 86'. 32) Word limestone. Here it has a s.s. at the base, 2-3' beds orange to brown- grey; 20' above we get a massive calcirudite.----100'+ PG. 38 7/18/59 Rained out--Saw G.A. Cooper and Dick Grant in town 7/19/59 Section 4 [ +- King's section 23] 1) Silt --- 20'. 2) Shale, brown, with thin clay rich dolomitic limestone ---72'. Collection 4- 2; 6' down from top. 3) Limestone, brown-gray weathering with large calcite crystals - -----4'. 4) Shale, brown, and thin limestone. 4-4A - 5' up. 4-4B - 11' up. - --- 23'. 5) Limestone, brown-gray, 2' beds, calcite crystals in long "bodies" - ------13'. [9/2000 Middle transgression in Lenox Hills Fm] Top of Lenox Hills Fm with an unconformity with 5' to 8' relief in 200 yards - 6) Limestone, medium to dark gray, calcarenite, many fusulinids - 2' to 4' beds. Collection 4-6A - --- 3' up. PG. 39 and shaly limestone - 'snail' limestone Coll. 4-6B is 15' up, Coll. 4-6C - 23'. {note: illustration followed}. 2 cycles of limestone 6' to 8' and shale 18'-20' --- 52'. 7) Limestone, light gray, with brown-orange chert concretions - massive. Collection 4-7A - ---- 16'. 8) Shale and limestone, brown and light brown weathering - varicolored shales and white ss. 25' up - --- 32'. 9) Limestone, brown-gray, 4" to 3' bed - mottle zone 1' at base. Small recrystallized Staffella are common throughout -17'. 10) Shale and shaly limestone - 6" bed of white s.s. --- 12'. 11) Limestone like 9 - 10'. PG. 40 [base of Hess Ls.]
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12) Limestone, gray, 1'-2' beds, vertical fracture on weathering. Collection 4- 12A - 3' up. Collection 4-12B - 12' up. Coll. 4-12C (Problematical fossil)- 22' up. Coll. 4-12D - 32' up. (and top of bench) ----32' 13) Limestone, dark gray, calcarenite, 6" to 1' beds. Collection 4-13A - 20' up. ------ 23'. Follows Neal fence here upwards 14) Shale, brown, grades upward into clayey limestone and finally into a calcarenite at top. Collection 4-14 at top - ---- 27'. 15) Limestone, light to medium gray, 6" to 1' bed. Collection 4-15A - 12' up. Collection 4-15B - 50' up. Shaly beds commonly reach 10-15' in this unit. Coll. 4-15C - 78' up. -- --106'. PG. 41 16) Limestone, medium gray, little shale, 6" to 2' beds, rubbly in part - Collection 4-16A - 3' up. Collection 4-16B - 25' up. Several beds of dolostone common very fine calcarenite - became dark gray above 30'; light gray above 42'. Collection 4-16C - 43' up. Collection 4-16D - 58' up. ------- 59'. 17) Limestone, light gray, silty, 3" to 1' beds rubbly - with thin shale bands -small "Staffella" fusulinids common in all beds - above 33' dark gray - small, subcylindrical fusulinids replaced by dolomite (47') --- 52'. 18) Dolostone, brown-gray and limestone, gray-brown, Coll. 4-18A - 11' up --- 27'. 19) Limestone, light gray, 2'-4' beds, silty, clayey; ----37'. PG. 42 20) Limestone medium gray to light gray, thin bedding 2" to 6", and shale and siltstone, dolomitic; Collection 4-20A - a 2' calcarenite 26' up ----- 37'. 21) Limestone, light gray to cream, massive 3' to 5' beds with thin bedded medium gray limestone. rubbly bed Collection 4-21A - 30' up. rubbly bed Collection 4-21B - 35' up. rubbly bed Collection 4-21C - 42' up. --- ----54'. 22) Limestone, light gray, 2" to 4" beds, fossils are common but dolomitized - ----------- ---------82'. 23) Limestone, light gray, massive, 2' beds. Collection 4-23A - 17' up. Collection 4-23B - 29' up. --- --------34'.
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PG. 43 24) Limestone, light gray to cream, thin irregular beds, 2" to 4" beds - laminated, Pink tones about 65' to 80'. -----87'. 25) Limestone, light brown-gray, wavy bedding, in beds 2' to 3' massive, clayey and silty. SEVERAL SMALL FAULTS --------------- 97'. 26) Limestone, medium gray, 2' beds, with brown shale cycles of these, the shale gradually becoming dominant --- 193'. [up to Hess - Neal gate. This is very near the base of the Hess Fossil Bed] PG. 44 7/20/59 -[walked about a 1/3 to 1/2 mile east along bed 26 and found section better exposed and better preserved] Coll. 4-26m - 1/2 mile east of section 4, 25' below fossil bed. Coll. 4-28mB - 1/2 mile east of Sect. 4, from a 35' to 40' light gray limestone above fossil bed. - 8' up. Coll. 4-28ma - 5' up. Coll. 4-27ma - fossil bed, silicified just above 2-3' limestone ledge 15' beneath top. Coll. 4-28mc - 35' above fossil bed. Coll. 4-29ma - massive limestone about 25' above top 4-28. PG. 45 27) Fossil bed, two lithologies a) basal calcirudite---------- 28'. b) Shale and limestone, shale is brown; limestone is medium gray, abundant silicified fossils - brachiopods, collection of bryozoans, yellow silty limestone. -----27'. 28) Limestone, medium gray, 1'-3' beds, dolomitic, chert nodules. Collection 4-28A - 42' up. Omphalthrocus common. Collection 4- 28B - 64' up. Top of hill at 89'. Total ----- 115'. [?]Hess fossil bed includes bed 28; Leonard Fm bed 29 to 34 [?]. 29) Limestone, brown-gray, 2'-4' beds, with lime mud blebs and chert pebbles ----- 24'. 30) Shale and limestone, brown, siliceous shale; dolomitic or dolomitized limestone. 2' beds ------- 29'. 31) Dolostone, dark gray-brown, 4' beds ---- 21'. 32) Limestone, light gray, "graphic" dolo-limestone beds.--12' [Word Fm starts with bed 33]. 33) Limestone conglomerate (calcirudite) with chert frags 3-4' beds - ------- 9'. PG. 46
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34) Limestone and shale, siliceous, w/ chert nodules .-----25' 35) Dolostone, brown-gray, pitted --------- 250' est. Word 2A limestone, Coll. 4 --25' up. Word 2B limestone (Coll.)-------50' up. The following (2C and 2D) are 10-15' above the top of the second limestone and separated from it by siliceous shale and sandstone. Word 2C limestone (Coll.) - 65' up (top). Word 2D limestone-about same horizon as Coll. from Word 2C. Word 2D is from saddle. Word 2E - 25' above 2D; 35' below first massive limestone in Third[?] Word limestone. PG. 47 Word third limestone A - 5' up. Word third limestone B - 8' up. Word third limestone C - 18' up. -----35' total thickness of limestone. Dolomite - 12' to top of ridge Word first limestone - Collection 4-Word 1a, 20' below top of King's unit "a" The Word limestone contain a lot of conglomeratic stuff at this place - most pebbles and cobbles of limestone probably intraformational in part, and fine chert pebbles - Where we saw the formation, the basal limestone (#1a is very little different from #1b although King's separation isn't too bad. The distance between #1 and #2 is closer to 83' than 14' and I think these members are reversed on King's 1930 page 143. The distance between #2 and #3 is a little high - unit 6 becomes limestone and unit 5 has fossiliferous limestone tongues in it. [This area is near the Wordian shelf break and thicknesses and facies change abruptly, so if we were offset a bit from King's line of section these differences would be understandable.] PG. 48 7/21/59 Southside of Leonard Mtn. The southside of Leonard Mtn. is complicated by: a) facies change b) irregular dolomitization of beds c) several faults I have perhaps drawn the top of the Lenox Hills Fm. a little high but we'll let is stand for the moment - [Changes on] the Lenox Hills Fm is thin here as if on an eroded pre-Leonardian anticline. Jail Canyon where road ends on map - 1) No Altuda shale on SW end of Hill 5789 - This is King's Capitan, upper member -
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2) Vidrio = Capitan upper member apparently and it seems likely that Altuda shale and lower member [of Capitanian] are equal to upper part of Word. [In 2004, I don't think this was correctly interpreted and need to study this part of the facies transistion much more thoroughly.] PG. 49 Section 5 Jail Canyon Section on East side of Old Blue Mt., Jail Canyon. Covered below 1) Limestone, medium gray, 2-4' beds, gastropods and crinoid columns, recrystallized; - ---15'. 2) Limestone, (buff) light brown weathering, 6"-1' beds, siliceous bands ---- - 85'. 3) Limestone, medium gray, pitted weathering, surface, 2-5' bed (similar to unit 1); calcarenite lenses (Coll 3A).----51'. 4) Ss., orange-brown to light brown, weathering, 2" to 6" beds, a lot of calcite cement, "siliceous bands are irregular throughout unit - 112'. 5) Limestone, medium gray, calcarenite - 2' to 6' beds, silicified and replaced fossils - Jail Canyon - Coll. 5A-about 3' up. Conglomeratic in part- calcarenite, very fine to 1"-2" pebbles - Calcirudite. [See King's Sect. 16, unit 5]. ------- ---------about 20' 6) Limestone, tan, calcirudite and ss., pinches out to South - varies from 10' here to 30-40' on ridge 400 yards North. PG. 50 7) Limestone, medium gray, 2'-3' beds, to top of Hill. His unit 3 is missing where we measured section but becomes thicker to southwest - His units 3 and 2 = upper part of his unit 1. {note: illustration followed}. [This is the area of the upper Word and lower Capitanian shelf break so facies and lithologies are changing abruptly.] PG. 51 [3 3/4 miles about N30°W of Skinner Ranch]. The Word limestone which King maps along the west side of Gilliland Canyon is probably his third limestone, not the first one. (Collection Iron Mt. road Word Limestone A) is from this - includes a few scattered fusulinids, cephalopods and a "scachinella" brachiopod. There seems to be no need for the fault further southwest. The top of the hill we climbed is a terrva block. The Gilliland Anticline poops out to the south of this point and beds regain their 10° NW dip. PG. 52 Blank PG. 53
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7/16/59 Elbow in Hess Canyon [note: illustration] Bed 1. Ss., and dolomitic limestone with silicified layers.--10-15' Bed 2. Fusulinid hash. Coll. A. -----8' Bed 3. Like #1. --------------22' Bed 4: Limestone, well-bedded, in 2' beds, fusuliniferous. Coll. B in basal bed. Coll. C, 2' up; Coll. D, 18' up; Coll. E 30' up. --------total about 35'. Bed 5. Covered. ----------------45' Bed 6. dolostone, Vidrio Member -------200'+, PG. 54 Blank PG. 55 7/22/59 Clay Slide - The upper part of Leonard is badly covered by terrva blocks from the Word limestone above. [note: illustration] Covered below. Bed 1. Shale, ss., and orange limestone. two collections from float. CS-X1 and CS- X2, --------------35'+. Bed 2. Covered ------------90'. Bed 3. Shale, black chert, and limy ss. in 2" beds; some fossil hash limestone lenses.--------14'. Bed 4. Limestone (calcilitute) with lenses of shell hash, Collection A (CS-A.), 19' up. ---------23'. Bed 5. Calcilutite, papery limestone, light gray, 1" beds, Collection B ( CS-B) at 20'. -------37'. Top of Ridge PG. 56 Clay Slide King's ammonite collection locality, 1/2 mile SW of King's dip symbol "12". along road. Sullivan Ranch Road and Clay Slide limestone cap - junction [where limestone that caps Clay Slide mets road]. 3 Collections: 20' -1) Word Limestone Coll. C - in lower 20' of gray limestone. 25' -2) Brown to yellow weathering bed. 35' -3) Word limestone Coll. D in lower part of massive recrystallized limestone 10' up. Word limestone Coll. E, 6' below top of ridge.
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PG. 57 7/23/59 Morning - climbed from the "Hess" ledge up to the second Leonard limestone - made three collections based on King's Sect. 12. The base of the Capitan at Sullivan peak is a beautiful unconformity - 40' or more relief and parallel bedding. Afternoon - base of little knob of Coopers' SW end of Lenox Hills - base of hill shale and siltstone and sandstone dip 10° to the S10°W. note: illustration: Bed 1: First Ls, 35'. (3) Collection, C (Top). Bed 2: S.s., orange-brown shale-gray. 85'. Bed 3: Limestone, 3 Coll. 60', Second Leonard limestone.(Coop's Knob) This section is cut by a fault or faults and the exact relation of the knob is dubious - it is probably the second Leonard limestone, but? PG. 58 The Leonard fm in the Lenox Hills consists of series of limestone tongues which tend to become thinner to the SW and break up into a number of thin units by additional shale tongues. The structural problems are big especially in the area south of Sullivan Peak, between Dugout Mt. and the Altuda uplift. Of course, it is all covered but there is still a real problem to figure out. King's map is wonderful, but his isn't very consistent about his boundary between the Word and Capitan - his Leonard and Word also have problems - the Ammonite bed which he places in the Leonard in the west is about the right horizon for his first Word limestone in the east. i.e.,[?] It seems the Word- Leonard boundary is also inconsistent. The base of the Word in the west seems to be about the third limestone of the eastern Mts. In Section 12 this unit is greatly thickened and may represent the reef between PG. 59 the hash reef faces to the east and the basin to the west. PG. 60 7/25/59 Decie Ranch - Sullivan Peak Collection from lower 25' of bituminous Word limestone of King's Sect. 12. Collection King's Sect. 12 Coll. B float 25' below top. Collection King's Sect. 12 Coll. C in place 20' below top. Collection King's Sect. 12 Coll. D in place 10' below top. (B and C and D are from King's section 12, bed 3.)
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Kin'sg Word bed 4 is conglomerate - 3" to 4" limestone cobbles from younger [older] Word or Leonard limestone, some chert. Collection - King 12 - Word 4. Collection King's Sect. 12, Word bed 5, 12' up. Collection from King's Sect. 12, bed 6 (maybe 9 or 8). Collection from float from King's bed 18, Sect. 12. PG. 61 7/25/59 Iron Mt. Ranch Section 5A covered below: 1) Siltstone and shale, with thin platy sandstones, yellow-brown weathering, 1/4"-1" beds ---- 58'. 2) Calcarenite, medium gray weathering, fusulinids. 1' ledge, Collection 5A-2 ----- 1'. 3) Limestone, orange and gray weathering, fossil hash of brachs and fusulinids - Collection 5A-3 ----1'. 4) Limestone, orange-brown weathering, sandy fusulinids - Collection 5A-4 -- -- 2'. 5) Sandstone, yellow-brown weathering, limy, 1' to 6" beds - ---------27'. 6) Limestone, medium gray, 1' to 2' beds, even bedding. Collection 5A-6A, Collection 5A-6X float -------- 2'. 7) Siltstone and sandstone, yellow-brown, with limy beds of same color - ------ 37'. PG. 62 8) Limestone, medium gray, massive beds, 5' to 10' cliffs, thin irregular brown chert bands.------ 56'. 9) Siltstone and shale, covered for most part, yellow to light brown weathering, upper 15' becomes a sandstone. - -----123'. 10) Limestone, medium gray; basal 2-3 a calcirudite, becomes finer grained upwards, fusulinids common in a 6-12" band just above conglomerate. Collection 5A-10 -- ---- 8'. 11) Siltstone and shale, yellow to green-gray. ----- - 48'. 12) Limestone, gray weathering, 3" to 1' beds, thin (1/2") shale interbeds.- -- ---4'. 13) Sandstone, siltstone sequence, tan to orange-brown weathering ------- 62'. 14) Limestone, calcilutite, gray, 3-6" beds. ------ 5'. PG. 63 15) Sandstone, orange-brown, 6" to 6' beds, calcarenous cement.
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----- 56'. 16) Calcilutite, brown-gray weathering, 2" to 3' beds, irregular bands of chert (3 cycles) nodules, grades upwards into quartz sandstone beds, at 56-60' there are several lenses of shell hash with silicified fossils - Collection 5A-16 at 60' --------- 137'. 17) Limestone, brown-yellow weathering, 6" to 2' beds scattered white chert patches, cliff forms, saccharoidal with purple weathering patches, pitted surface ----- 25'. 18) Limestone, brown-gray weathering, 6" beds ------ 17'. Unconformity - 8' of relief in 100 yards along strike. 19) Dolostone, brown-gray, rubbly cemented by clear calcite matrix - forms top of ridge - 65'+. [Start here.] PG. 64 Section 5. Section at West end of Road Canyon. 9°S dip to the S70W King's fault contact of the Word against Vidrio is true, although there is [also] possibly a fault 100 yards further up the hill. Vidrio [top of section] 10. Dolostone, brown-gray with large clear calcite crystals and a calcite matrix (Collection of this) - to top of hill. Unconformable contact - several (2') of relief? [Top of Word, Fourth limestone] 9. Limestone, calcilutite, yellow-brown, 2"-6" beds with chert nodules ---- --12'. 8 . Ss., dark brown weathering, siliceous bands with calcarenous cement where calcite cement remains weather, light yellow- brown - -------32'. 7. Limestone, calcilutite, yellow-brown weathering, brown on fresh surface, 1' to 2' beds patches of chert crystals ---- 20'. PG. 65 6. Limestone, medium gray, massive lenses 1' to 4' thick in rocks like above unit -------12'. 5. Limestone, yellow-brown weathering, brown chert nodules, 6" beds. Collection of fusulinid from here.------ - 18' 4. Ss., dark yellow-brown weathering, 1' to 3' beds chert crystals - ---------8'. 3. Limestone, yellow-brown weathering, brown chert nodules, 6" to 1' beds -- -------10'. 2. Ss., dark brown, siliceous -------- 6'. Probably top of third Word limestone 1. Limestone, light gray weathering, platy, - ---10' exposed. 0. Covered beneath. PG. 66 Blank
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PG. 67 7/26/59 Section 4A. Examined the middle of King's Sect. 12, Lenox Hills, and remeasured it in part, see book [King 1930 section]. Then drove to Hess-Hall boundary fence and measured from road north to the top of the ridge and across the rolling slopes about 400 yards. Section along Hess-Hall boundary fence. 1) Limestone, dark gray, silicified fossil hash, 3' to 6' beds. --------- - about 20'. 2) Covered, probably siliceous shale. -------- - 126'. First Word limestone: 3) Limestone, medium-gray, finely laminated, very silty with bands of brown siliceous replacement, lenses of fossiliferous calcarenite, (Collection 10' from top) --------- 84'. 4) Dolostone, "dirty" gray, 5' beds, a yellow weathering limestone 6" about 20' up - -----40'. Second Word limestone: 5) Shale, red-brown weathering ------ 10'. 6) like 4 below - ----about 30'. PG. 68 Blank PG. 69 7/27/59 Dugout Mt. Section Section 7 - dip 14°WNW. Siliceous siltstone below. 1) Limestone, medium gray weathering, 1' to 2' beds, bands of brown silica, fossil hash, conglomerate, chert pebbles up to 1" diameter -------- 24'. 2) Limestone, medium gray, lenses of shell hash up to 6' thick, silicified nodules common. Collection 7-2[-A] -- 3' up. Becomes interbedded with blue-gray calcarenite upwards - Collection 7- 2-B --31' up. Shale breaks at 35' and 40'. Total -------- 53'. 3) Shale, siliceous with chert bands, and thin limestone calcarenite --------- 8'. PG. 70 4) Calcirudite, brown weathering, 6" cobbles in 4' beds and shale, siliceous, red-brown in 6' beds calcarudite has abundant silicified corals -------- 27'.
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5) Calcarenite, gray, 1' grading up into quartz ss. ----- 12'. 6) Calcarenite, medium to dark gray, 1' beds, Collection 7-6A -- 1' up? A few pebbles - calcarenites have siliceous through the pores - gets brown weathering color. Upper part of a conglomerate - dolomite also in patches. (Cephalopods and bryozoans to the west).----- 18'. 7) Sandstone, red-brown weathering, and conglomerate, chert pebbles in a dolostone and siliceous matrix, 4 repetitions. -------30'. PG. 71 8) Limestone, brown weathering, shell hash, some beds conglomeratic, siliceous deposits in voids, 1' to 2' beds - -------40' (to top of knoll). To the west these beds change facies into orthoquartzites, siliceous shales, to a large extent. Above, beds which I think are the same as unit 8, there are: 9) Sandstone and shale, friable, yellow and red-brown weathering, some bands of dark brown siliceous shale ------ 30'. 10) Sandstone, light brown, orthoquartzite and thin beds of shales. (6° WNW dip).- -----15'. 11) Covered above, some beds are exposed but strikes are variable and apparently the sequence is broken by several faults. -------(King's est 525') mine —about 400'. PG. 72 12) Shale, yellow-brown weathering, impart siliceous. ----- 25' exposed. 13) Conglomerate, local lens. -----about 30'. 14) Ss., and shale, gray-yellow ----- 232'. 15) Limestone, yellow-gray weathering, finely laminated with some cherty bands, lenses of calcarenite - Collection 7-15A -- 5' up. Collection 7-15B --12' up. Collection 7-15C --17' up. ---------Total 17'. 16) Shale, yellow-brown, thinly laminated, lenses of calcarenite with fossil hash - -------14'. 17) Limestone, medium gray, 1' massive beds, fossil hash calcarenite. Collection 7-17A 1' up. - --------2'. 18) Shales and ss., red-brown to yellow, thinly laminated, siliceous, one 6" calculutite bed in middle. - -----10'. PG. 73 19) Limestone, medium gray, conglomeratic in lower part, calcarenite higher - Collection 7-19A - 6" up. Collection 7-19B - 1.5' up --------- 2'.
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20) S.s., brown to red-brown weathering, siliceous, thinly laminated, 1" beds, friable ------ 260'. 21) S.s., brown-red, cliff former, 6" to 3' beds, conglomeratic. ------ 60'. 22) Limestone, dark gray, conglomeratic ------ 2'. 23) Covered ------ 37'. 24) Limestone, light gray to chalky weathering, a series of ledges, fossil hash -- ---- 35'. [Fault N of Ss cuesta] (dip 6° to the ESE) 25) Calcarenite, light gray to brown weathering, 2" to 1' beds. Collection 7-25A 6' up. Collection 7-25B 10' up. Total -------- 12'. PG. 74 26) Covered 27) S.s., dip 14° to the WNW, brown weathering, 1' to 3' beds, cross bedded locally, conglomerate in bands - 70' up a Cephalopod locality. Collection 7-27A ----110'. 28) Limestone, dark gray, 6" beds, calcarenite. Coll. 7-28A --5' up. Coll. 7-28B --12' up. 20' of light brown calcilutite Coll. 7-28C dark gray limestone ---4' up. 12' of brown siliceous shale and siltstone 8' of limestone, black, Coll. 7-28D --6' up. 10' of siliceous shale. 4' of very fine grained calcarenite. Coll. 7-28E. 29) S.s., brown and siliceous shale -------- 62'. 30) Limestone, calcilutite, yellow-brown and siltstone alternating in cycles - chert nodules common in upper part - 175'. ------more than 50' (up as far as we went). 31) Gray Capitan dolomite. [Start Here] PG. 75 7/28/59 Tried to chase down King's section up Little Blue Mt. - met a Mr. Mills who was of great -[help] [Mills is son-in-law of Ferguson and now, 7/59, is taking care of Little Blue Mtn. pasture.] The fusulinids in King Sect. 17, p. 77 are mostly funny spots in the limestone but are not apparently fusulinids. His thicknesses here is about right. PG. 76 Blank PG. 77
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7/29/59 Section 2A. Walker and Falk Ranches. Eastern Glass Mountains. Covered below 1) Dolostone, brown to gray-brown weathering, 1' to 2' ledges, chert pebble lenses ------- 48'. 2) Limestone, medium gray, 6" to 1' beds, fossil hash, many fusulinid- bearing calcarenites: Collection 2A-2A 24' up Collection 2A-2B 26' up Collection 2A-2C 31' up Collection 2A-2D 43' up Collection 2A-2E 48' up Collection 2A-2F 62' up (platy in upper 20') ------------- Total 67'. 3) Limestone, gray, 1-2' beds, abundant fusulinids, almost all fusulinid limestone in total - Collection 2A-3A 2' up - -----14'. (---> King's base of the Word Ls. here) 4) Dolostone, probably like unit 3 below originally. PG. 78 Sect. 2B - (on Fulk ranch here and higher) 4) Dolostone, gray-brown weathering, pitted surfaces (relic fusulinids), 1'-3' bed, a poorly silicified brachiopod bed about 25' up ------- Total 85'. 5) Dolostone, 1-3' beds, light gray in lower 200' becomes medium gray in upper part. ------- - est. 700'. PG. 79-82 Blank PG. 83 Salt River Section, Arizona Collection 0 to 3 are in first road above Molasses-Redwall road cut. Collect 4 is in second road 10' above Collection 3, but the structure is a bit odd, is several NW plunging folds, slightly faulted? so that Collection 4 may possibly be same as Collection 0 (doubtful) because of lithologic dissimilarities however? Collection 5 - Coral-Brach-Crinoid-Bry bioherm Prismopora and Fenestelloids. PG. 84 Blank PG. 85 Gap Tank area, Marathon/Glass Mountains, West Texas. Stop 1.
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Photog. April 16, 1964 Sect. 43, Bed 17 lenses into Sect. 40, from about bed 15-19. 43-16 looks to be about as thick as 43-14 as shown on section. Distance between 43-15 and 43-13 is too great as shown on section Stop 2. 39-1 is = 40-21; Lenox Hills conglomerate cut out limestone units 39-7 to 39-12 about 100 yards east of where Sect. 39 measured. “Stream channel” about 250 yards wide E-W. Stop 3. 39-1 = [40-]38.21 {note: illustration followed along side} and 38-4 = 39-7 37-9 = 38-24 and 37-9 = 36-6 38-21 = 37-5 and 37-6 PG. 86 4-19-64 A Sunday April 19 Near Sect. 29 about 70-80' below 29-1 about 200 yards east of section 29 out on flats. “Uddenites” zone of Keyes?? 4-19-64B = 31-11 Ammonoid = 31-13 4-19-64C 4-19-64D = 31-13 Gray limestone conglomerate in flank of bioherm forming face of hill. PG. 87 4-19-64Π Section 21 revisited {note: illustration: Bed 1: 31-11; algal mudstone Bed 2: covered Bed 3: 31-13; limestone congl, crossbedded Bed 4: 5' covered Bed 5: 7'. Fine ss., yellow, 6" beds, silty near top. Eolian? Bed 6: 6". recrystallized algal limestone. Bed 7: 18'. Mostly covered, some s.s., as below in lower 4'. Bed 8: 2.5'. Bed 9: 5'. Algal limestone. Limestone congl. and calcarenite. Bed 10: 7'. 2' reddish and s.s.. Bed 11: Coll. 4-19-64E, 4' up in red limestone. Bed 12: Coll. 4-19-64F. Beds 11+12 (14'; jumbled up like concrete mixer (=30-8) limestone mud - 2"- 2' beds mottled reds and brown).
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Bed 13: 6', cover. Bed 14: 5'; Limestone light gray, 2' beds, mudstone. Bed 15. [Calcirudite] 25-40'. {note:this section is illustrated on following page 87} PG. 88 {note: illustration followed} PG. 89-182 Blank PG. 183 Decker and Merritt Okla Geol. Survey 1931, Bull 55. Measured 1/4 mile west of US 77. Didn't find Bed 9. Sponge sect. 1) Bromide, Deckers Sect. 4, bed 16 calcarenite; buff weathering; rubbly. Collection 4-16 Diplotrypa zone. (upper Tulip Ck poorly exposed - didn't fine Decker's bed). Seems to be all a "calc". SS. 2) McLish - Collection in Decker's Sect. 4, beds 72 and 73; rubbly limestone. 3) McLish - Collection in Decker's Sect. 4, beds 75/76, calcarenite, bry thin sect. here. 4) McLish - Collection in Decker's Sect. 4, bed 80; weathers buff; calcarenite; bry. colonies. 5) Oil Ck - Collection in Decker's Sect. 4, be 87 poorly exposed medium gray limestone; thin beds 2'-3'; very rubbly overlying more massive thin bedded units with few bryozoa and these in turn overlie a massive finely crystalline lightly gray limestone. Rhinidictyids with ramose bry. "Decker's section measured along edge of Ardmore - Davis Highway (US 77) Dip 55° SW. Strike N60°W. PG. 184 "Strat and Physical Char. of the Simpson Gp." C.A. Deckers and C.A. Merritt.
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Doc. 318 Western Washington University 1893 doc 0315 20318 COLLECTIONS MADE BY CHARLES A. ROSS The following collections were used in Charles A. Ross' 1965 Journal of Paleontology article "Late Pennsylvanian Fusulinidae from the Gaptank Formation, West Texas" vol. 39, p. 1151-1176. Section 26, bed 2 (26-2) 30-3 31-3 32-1* 26-8 30-6 31-8 32-11 (2 bags) 26-10B 30-10 31-13 32-12 28-1* 30-19 32-16 (?3 bags) 32-16 (=7-16-57-loc.7 (not 7-17-59-loc.7 & not 6753 (Leonard?)) *Not included in study - probably lacked fusulinids. 34-15 36-4 37-1 35-6 36-6 37-9 (8-20-57; 6683 35-7 36-7 37-9 (float) 35-10 37-11 37-12 6683 The publication locates the collections quite well. These samples were retained by Charles Ross from the main smaples for future reference. They are part of YPM accession [6683] Charles Ross had a note to me that he was still tracking 37-36b which may be from the lower part of the Hess facies. He was also trying to locate the source of samples 8-31-66-J and 8-31-66-O and -Q; probably southeastern Arizona. Bellingham, Washington 98225 [ ] (206) 676-3000
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doc.0318 C.A. + J.R.P. Ross Summer 1959 Book 3 If found please return to Peabody Museum Yale University New Haven, Conn. These are Leonard and Word sections and samples 6755
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doc. 0318 7/8/59 Brooks Ranch Section 2 1) Shale, blue-gray, 1/4-1/2" bandy brown xistone - 10' 2) Covered - 15' Top of Lenoxhills fm. -> Base of Leonard -> 3) Limestone - light gray to light gray weathering 3" to 2' beds, very few fossil trace for most part - foraminida in thin beds within this unit. Coll. 2-3A - 8' up Coll. 2-3B - 22' up Coll. 2-3C - 37' up shale interbeds gradually thicken to 6" or so - 48' 4) Limestone, like below + Shale, light brown to light gray - ls. are 1 to 1/2' thick, 4' shale beds are 1 1/2 to 3' thick - 27' 5) Limestone, light gray, very few coarse glayey o xley - 3" - 2' beds - 2-5A - 12' 2-5B - 35'
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2/9/59 2-5C - 52'up 95' 6) Dolostone, light brown weathering and shale (covered mostly) - light brown-gray v.f. l.s. near top 1 to 3" beds. Coll. 2-6A - 33' up Coll. 2-6B: 85'up 112' 7) Limestone, light gray - 3" to 6" beds, few thin shale interbeds 2-7 32' 8) Limestone, light orange-brown weathering, v.f. gray - 3 to 5" thick separated by 2-7" shaly intervals the l.s. have a "Staffella" fauna, and locally scattered "Franklinia" 90' Cyclothems - 10-12 - got progressively more shaly toward top units 9) Limestone, orange-brown weathering, 1" to 4" beds. Amphalathera tyngactis near base - Franklinia locally? 2-9A - 42' up (Topsy ridge 140') 2-9B - 145'up limestone becomes progressively more shaly and change to light gray weathering 2-9C - 160' up 2-9D - 185'up 215' 10) Limestone, Dolostone, orange-brown weathering,- very shaly -2" to 6" beds - shale interbeds up to 1" Colls: 2-10A - 5' Sandstone? 30' 2-10B - 105' up Rose colored l.s. 3' separated by 4' y orange weathering w/ct-shaly strata. Cyclic beds below? Dolo p/l to orange silt-sand wct clay shly sile (+)
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funnelate, on rare - revivify when found. Gastropod - encrusted + ostracods locally abt to 2' -187' 11) shale, light gray, +ls., light gray sh - 2-5' thk. la. - 1/4 to 1' thk. 2-11 A 5' up 33-50' Ophiasteria pellucida common (18 is parvisulcata) 89' 12) limestone conglomerate, well sorted -25' 13) Sandstone, light brown, selected crinofract + brachiopods well sorted, fine sand - grade vertically into calcareous Coll. 2-13 A -32' To saddler - 158' 14) Dolostone - brown-gray, porous, sacccoidal, weather to patinated surface - 3-6' foot beds. - 10' 15) Limestone, light gray, 6" to 2' thick little in the way of shells or oolithes 2-15A - 42' up 2-15B - 65' up - 205' Several different limestones in this unit - all are highly assigned ooliths limestone. The more rubbly beds are red, size are are brown-gray. 4 to 5 alternation of grain size 16) Limestone, orange brown weathering, [select outlinings of funnelites (abundant) 5' at base] like 15 below Coll. 2-16A 53' [at 65' a bottle quartz ss. bed w/ sand fragments] [at 97' - silty red 1', brown-orange, brachiopod] Coll. 2-16 B. 185' -197'
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17.) Sandstone, orange-brown weathering, very silty, calcareous cement? 3"-6" beds 30' - stuff hard - rextallized, no fossils? but fine crinital columns, 42' 18.) Limestone, gray/brown weathering, 1" to 3" beds, pock marked. Wilt + f. calcareous foamed part. [22" rextallized, fossil debris abundant] [154' a 3" conglomerate bed, including quartz, quartzite, chalcedony pebbles to 1/2" diameters] Afternoon looked at the rest of the Leonard Fm., lower part of Wood Fm. There isn't much difference between the three facies and three upper units here far east. King's Sect. about 2 miles east is supposed to be quite markedly different in the 2 facies of the Leonard Fm., but I can't say that is true here. from the top of these hills, one can see beds in the Leonard Fm. thicken + thin within short distances. The units of brown-gray dolomitic ls. may change from 120' to 0' thick in 300 yards. Thus there seem to be few "key horizons" in this interval - we have 3 or 4 clay pebble conglomerate zones near the top of the Leonard, a couple of conglomerates in the lower facies - and that is about all. Even there are probably not of too great a regional significance as they are mostly 3 to 6" cobbles. Lenses (near the top, th. f.), at the once lower are calcirudites with locally denuded pebbles + cobbling limestone. clay frag. scattered throughout upper 150' 7/10/59 18cmt. [pebble bed at 190' - 3" pebble band] 293' 19.) Limestone-dolomite, light gray to light brown weathering, 1/16-1/8" laminae of ls alternating with dolostone - 2'
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20) Dolostone, left brown pitted surface - 15' 21) like 19 - 8' 22) like 20 [20-28' up - quartz jay. congl. fine pebble] 74' 23) limestone, light gray, with some 1/8" lading irregular landing dolomite, 6" to 1" beds - Tog oj ridge (Fault rend) locally angular to. pebbles & cobbles make 6" beds -29' 24) Dolostone, brown, with Lepidodre outlines, see 6" to 2' beds pebble congl. 6' up 3" bed 37' 25) limestone, brown-gray, shelly, Coll. 2-25 A - 5' up Coll. 2-25B - 24' up - 3" beds quarrels "cochina" [Piccki Collection] --- 42' 26) limestone, light gray-, poorly bedded 2' to 3' beds, weather erously - [65'-crinoid calumal hatch-20'] Local intraformational congl. - es. pebble --- 185' 27) Sandstone, brown, red, orange, f.f. quartz sand - 5' 28) limestone, blue to purple gray, irregular wave bedding; 42' 29) limestone, light gray, massive 2'-5' beds, excellent silicified fauna of gastropods, Brachs, jellyfish. --- 12'
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30) limestone, light gray to white, fossils replaced by calcite; 4 x 6' bed 30' (k?) 7/10/59 Allison Ranch, Section 1 Covered below on the sidey road - 1) limestone, brown, gritty & sandy, 3" to 1' beds - 4' 2) Sandstone, creamy lime cement, x hollowed 3' 3) Limestone, dark brown-gray, - 3' black, dense - 4) Covered - shale mainly ls. 18' 5) limestone, like D, caligid fossils 8' 6) Covered - 7' 7) limestone, like D and shale above it, coll. 1-7 5' 8) limestone, like D - gastropods - 1' 9) Covered - 8' base -> top #9 57'
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10.) limestone, gray-brown, 2" to 6" bedding; 3', 6" rubble beneath - Coll. 1-10. Franklin coquina -4' 11.) limestone - yellow-brown, vertical fractures - rubbly weathering, Coll. 1-11. 2') Covered 9' 13.) ls., brown, fossil beds Franklinia + Oryphalostreum gastro-1' trochus 14.) Covered - shale? - 4' Coll. 1-14 15.) Ls., like 10 10 16.) Covered 3' 17.) ls. like 10 2' 18) Covered 4' 19.) Shell hash - everything gastropods, echinoids - 6 # echinoids base -> top #19 90'6" 20.) Covered 10' 21.) ls., yellow-brown, fine-grained coquina Coll. 1-21- 2' 22.) ls., light yellow-gray, marly - 3" to 6" beds 5' 23.) Covered 29' 24.) ls. - dark gray, 6' bedding - metallized fossils- 8' 25.) Covered 12' 26) Ls., yellow-brown weathering + fresh, graphic textures join - part- 3' 27.) Covered 15' 28.) ls. J gray-brown, 1' to 2' beds- join steel hash 10' base -> top #28 184'6"
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29) Covered ------------------------- 37' 30) Ls., light brown, indistinct lamination, 6" to 1' beds --------------- 7' 31) Covered ------------------------- 13' 32) Ls., light yellow brown, - 4' 33) Covered ------------------------- 11' 34) Ls., med. gray-brown, 3" beds - 3 ? 35) Covered - probably more study internal of 34 --------------- 12' base -> top #45 344'6" 36) Ls., orange brown, 6" beds, silty + sand (N.F.S.) -------- 8' 37) Ss., white to very light gray, X bedded, 15' 38) Ls., yellow brown, very sandy, maxim ------------------------ 3' base -> top #38 297'6" 39) Covered, -------------------------- 8' 40) Ls., brown-gray - 5" beds, crystallized fossils ---------- 21 41) Covered ------------------------- 7' 42) Ls., med gray-brown 6" beds small fusulinids? cut f-42 3' 43) Covered ------------------------- 4' 44) Ls., light cream-gray, silty crystallized fossils, several whole beds 6", bed 6
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50) ls, like 46, — 1' 51) Covered — 2' 52) ls, Orange-brown, silty, shell lacks, 53) Covered — 22' 54) ls. — brown-orange, sandy? silty, 6" beds; =-1 shale 4 to 6" beds — 24' 55) ls, fine-lined bedding, gray-brown 6" beds Call 1-55 — 2 56) Covered — 9' 57) ls., dark gray—shell lachs—6" 58) Covered — 8' 59) ls., like 57. — 7' 60) ls, orange-brown, sandy-silty, 2' 61) Covered — 3' 62) ls, gray-brown, sandy-silty shell lachs, — 6" beds — 1' 63) Siltstone, brown to yellow weathering, partly covered, — 17' 64) Sandstone + silt stone — 2' 65) Limestone, light-brown-yellow, 1'beds — 3' 66) Covered — 37' 67) SS., purplish-gray weathering, — 2' 68) ls, gray-brown, shell lachs, 3" beds — Col. 1-68 — 61 Total 160 69) SS, orange-yellow weathering, 1'beds, — 3'
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70) Covered - 10' 71). Ss, like 69 - 91 72) Shale, gray in 5-15' bed, alternating with 4" - 6" beds - 53' 73) Ss., like 69 - 8' 74.) Shale, gray; jumbled ss. (white + purple) + 6" ledgey resistant ss. - 38" 75) Ss. like 69 - 3 1/2 76) Covered for most part - some purple-brown ls. with large calcite Xalls, & ss. - 22' 77) Ss. like 69 - 2 1/2' 78.) Sh + Ss. (orange) - 22' 79.) Ss., gray to brown, X bedded, - 6' 80.) Ss., orange-brown, like 69. - 12' Total 184 81) Ls., light to mid. gray, chert frags. common, 2' to 3' beds [27' of a orange brown weathering sixty ls.] - 454 82) Ss. - light brown - grades into into silty fine grained ls. 13' 15' 83.) like 82 - 17' 84.) like 82 - from limestone at top Coll. 1-84 - 12' Total 144 85.) Ls., gray-brown, 6" to 2' beds fossil flake - 25 86) like 82 - 12' ls. has algal plates
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87.) l.s., blue-gray, 3" to 6" beds, from shell back, recrystallized fennell-like in a few beds. - 35' 88.) Covered -- over two thin l.s. ledges ----------------- 22' 89.) l.s., med.-gray, concretion conodes common, 6" to 2" beds, fossils recognized Total 92' - 35' 90) shale and ss. - 7 to 10' bed alternately with l.s., dark-gray, Traversed NW [illegible] 150 yds. 91.) Covered ----------------- 11' 92.) l.s., med.-gray, brown "tubes" on mottled surface - 1/2' 93) Covered for next part, ss. orange, limited purple + siltstone yellow outcrop patches -------------- 32' Total 95 1/2 94) Hemistone, med. gray, 2" to 2' beds with some coiled internal - 34' calcite X-talls -- replaced fossils? 95.) Covered ----------------- 7' 96.) l.s., mottled gray + orange-brown weathering 3" to 6" beds. -------------- 10 97.) Covered ----------------- 21' 98) l.s. med.-gray, silty + sandy - 2' 99) largely covered, probably siltstone, also every 4 to 10 a 6" ss. (orange-brown) crop out -- 48' 100.) l.s., light-gray, very silty, sandy, clayey, perceived bed. -------------- 2' 101) Shale, largely covered, & SS. 2 beds, orange-brown -------- 8' 102.) Covered, except for 3 6" beds of ss ----------------- 31' 103) SS., orange-brown, lying cement, massive -------------------- 2' Total 122'
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7/12/59. Section 3 Western Brooks Ranch remained Kings sect 26 His beds 9.) = S. construction zone with large Omphalota rock 3-(9)A joint appearance at [illegible] 3-(9)B - 35' up -108' 10) Coll. 3-(10)A - 5' up 3-(10)B - 50' up. -270' 11) Double ledge 3-(11)A - 2' up 12.) Coll. 3-12 X - 2 bay 10' up Coll. 3-12A - 35' up 13.) 2nd ledge 3-13A 30' up 14.) 3-H A - lower lo. ledge 3-14B - top unit 3-14C - algal bed- Staffella are common throughout the lower beds -(9) through (12) 16) 3-16 - 15' up 3-16 B - 35' up 17.) 3(17) 3-17B - in section, 50' up Base of King's fossil bed is a conglomerate. In 3-17 B fusulinid occur with goniatite, Cammaratae lid, Omphalota, -thunder-a- bed 3-18A - but we think King pisolites are founds with algal coatings 3-18B - 35' up
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Nearby King's bed 18 or in the base of bed 19 - red silicious slate siltstone - 10' + thick The lower part of King's section was much easier to follow than the upper part. This might be in part the result of the topography, for beds 14 and higher are exposed on the top of the escarpment. Now again, there seems to be a change in lithology at the internal of the Here fossil beds - just above & below - I have already tried to follow the route of the succeeding section; it is possible we missed it in the upper units. The fossil beds are partly porous and here and there not the respective cliff foundations to the west. Silicilites nearly make up alot of this interval above below the Nexe fossilized. 7/14/59 With Cooper, Grant, Shinner + Wilde, and Stebbi Collected from Here rock heart and from the word about 1 mile NWg Hill 5779 north Leonard Mt. Word 1. 15. - 35' - 3 Coll. Word 1st shale Coll. 5-2A wmd - 35'y " " " 5-2B - 45' 5-2C - 65' ls. become more abundant and the upper 50' are 2 to 3' ls. beds. Total from today 1st h. 80' Shale, silicious with 2-1' ls. beds - Cor. 5-3A - 15'y up Gee. 5-3B - 20'y up total 140' Word 18. - position 2nd ls. Coll. 5-4 - 7' Shale 155' Word - 1' silexite - 5-5A - (10') 5-5B - 5'y
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Shale - 20' ls. - 2' Coll. 5-6s. Shale - 20' -> ls. - base 3rd Word ls. - Type Paraj. sheldaeckii Coll. 5-7A 3' -> Shale - 121 -> Aphelozyne - 2'x at base next ls. - end gray 3rd Words - no fulcoid - 65' The first Word ls is thinning to the NW mainly at the top of interlengy with silicious shale - The ls just below looks 2? are fine grain luttus, and a few 6" limestone are rare (2003) between 2nd & Word and 3rd ls. Coger pointed out a high Leonard ls, locality just NW the road up Leichland Canyon at the rough Word for. It seems that Cogers "Hess Ledge" can be traced around the end of the ridge behind the Hess ranch house and behind the front to a point opposite the gap between the cicles in the forest. He doesnt find this fama on the front of the ls. escapement to the south (Hess escapement) because in his words "it isnt the right Lithology" Thus he would rule out the idea that like fama occurs in several horizons. Wilde is using the 1st Leonard ls. & Key as equal to the Hess fossil bed. - This seems to solve a few problems - but I wonder how many? The section we measured in the Word seems to best fit in with Key's Sect. 18, p. 70, but this on dipositional strike 2 1/2 miles to the NE.
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7/15/59 Split Tank Coll. 3 - (19) from egg ts in other dolomite facies - mostly this is a crinal cocchine - 15' below top. (maybe in lower ls of Leonard) Coll. 3 - (c) Leonard — [3-13] The upper beds of Leonard(2) have abundant fenestids Road to Red Tank Wood 1st ls. — has bs. cobbles on the upper unit, outlined by 15-20' of siliceous shale followed by dolomite #2 ls. → Coll. from flat near top of 1st ls. → Coll. - 4-5' above Wood ls. #2 The 4th Word ls. & the Video are dolostone facies for most part here. They like the upper 250' of these facies. Locally they have abundant relict outlines of fenestids but we couldn't find any that were well preserved. The Split Tank Leonard section is faulted in several places and we were able to follow King's section in only a general way. Cooper said each ls. was a lens which pinches out with a short distance and each of these apparently contains a distinct blackspod assemblage.
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Hextz Ranch - 7/16/59 - Lm.2 Word lie; 2nd limestone by the road north of the tract - these are apparently 2nd or 3rd ls. - ... the field I judge it to be the 2nd ls. - or #1 box 3 Word 4/ls. - A- 12' up in ledge probably #3 3/4 mile up valley B - 10' " " " from earthen tank This is not too close to the massive beds at the top of the ridge - which King calls Vidrio - way 125'/6/150' below the Vidrio. The region is a dirty, dirty limestone in 2" to 6" beds with a few scattered fusulinids in some of the more indurated beds - 135' thick up to 4th ls. See Caliz. page for word 4-Vidrio sect. Road Canyon, East end - V -> median coll. jun. Word 3rd ls 35' deep (A) 8' ards ls sandy dolomite ls 18' ards ls 25 3/5 or so from 120' ls. 7' above ford 145' W ls. silurif - 6' 250' of orange-brown ss with a few thin yellow-gray ls. (6") 2nd ls goniatite bed 35'
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There is a fault cutting the SE face - section at Road Canyon - also several Terra Blocks have dropped down. The Word 4 Is limited as just about gone here with the Viduado. living comfortably but with an abrupt lithologic change. 7/17/59 Sect. 5 Leonard Mt - 0) - (are pages over) Covered below - mainly dolomitic - & interfingeriny D tongues + patches 1) ls, med to dark gray" fresh surfaces, massive 10 to 20' beds, Sacchinella zone of G. ACs, weathers to rounded surfaces, one 5'-6' zone of shaley 1" /s. beds 65'ng -- 112' 2) ls, dark gray, 1-2 foot beds, erinoid-D trygwan fragments - 43' 3) ls, med to dark gray, 6" to 2' beds, caps ridges, a few pits, angular weathering - conglomeratic locally -- 37' Coll. 5-3 tended 4) ls., dark gray, 3" to 1' beds -- 12' 5) Calcisidite, 4" cobbles, with 4" of ' darkgray 6"ls. in middle -- 34' top of ridge Coll. 5-5 for mid a shill top ridge 6) ls., light gray, shell bed, zierupidiin part -- 31 Wildie's locality - Coll. 5-8 gully probably about bed 2
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7) Covered in part, thin ls (darkgray) silicous shale -- King fault zone - but no fault here silty ls. + shaly ls - part - 18' 8) Calcaremite - light gray, massive, 2-3' beds, 16' 9) Calcaremite, dark gray ls. matrix, 6" bed 21' 10) Ls., light gray, 2' beds (calcaremite), one brown bed (call. 5-10 lens) 5'y - 20' 11) Calcaremite, dark gray matrix - 12 3" cobble 12) Ls., 2" crinoid columnal beds, light gray, 5-6' beds - shell knob - aren'ti- 5-12A - 3'y up 5-12B - 8'y up 38' 13) Calcaremite, dark gray ls. matrix, 2" cobbles 6' 14) Calcaremite, light gray grading virtually into shell beds - several of these cycles repeated -(3) - 37' 15) Shale, siliceous, red/orange - 33' 16) Conglo., ls. matrix few cobble, chert fragments - 2' -> 6'-7' to So East lags, 2' 17) Shale, orange - siliceous, platy. 32 18) Ls., light gray, massive, silicified crinois, fossils, chert frags, near top 56 19) Shale, orange-brown, with 1'-2' b. beds (conglomeratic chert pebbles) - 67' silicified coquina 20) Ls., light brown-gray, 2'-3' beds silicified beds 17'
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21.) Shale, ogy-bu, silified, [0.] base of Nese ledge rest unconformably on truncated edgey dearhills fau. 3' relg., 5'diffusion henchill dys-mndr coll O-A 10' below unconformly O-B 1" " O-C 1' above in Nese ledge 26) Siltstone, yellow ogy - decreding near top stratiate leanw - 24' 27) Covered, mostly gray shale - 87' 28) Conglos, chert frags, brown weathering, may by or traces silified - O 1/2" 29.) Covered, mostly gray shale - a few 6" silt + SS (orange)-bed-shil laches-14/6 30.) Sss.- orange-brown - black-shelf chert - coll. 5-30 lemed 12' 22) Shale, ogyweathering (the fresh) with 1"- 3" shellhard-calc - 55' 31.) Covered - 86' 23) Covered - 115' 32) Word ls. - 100'+ here it is a ss. at the base - 2-3 beds oagy to brown gray - 20' above we get a massive calcareous 24.) Shale+silt-st - ogy - 25 25.) Ls., Sk, Shell, lags & brack - 6'
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1/18/59 - rainout - Saw G.A. Rogers Dial grad in town. 1/19/59 Section 4 1) Sil - 20' 2) Shale, brown, with thin clay-rich dolomitic ls. 72' Coll. 4-2 - 6' down from top 3) Ls., brown-gray weathering with large calcite crystals - 4' 4) Shy brown, + thin ls. 4-4A - 5' up 1-4B - 11' up 23' 5) Ls., brown-gray - 2' beds, calcite shales in long "beds" - 13' --> Top of Olenekian Fm. <-- underlapped with 568' relief ~ 200 yards - 6) Ls., mid to dark gray, calcareous, many juvenile ls. 244' beds. Coll. 4-6A 8' up and shaly ls. - sandail w. 15' up (4-6B) 4-6C - 83' 4-6C 2 cyclical ls. 6' to 8' + shale 18'-20' 52' 7) Ls., light gray, with brown-orange chert concretions - massive Coll. 4-7A - 16' 8) Sh. + ls., brown + light brown weathering - [varicolored shales] + white ss. 25' up] 32' 9) Ls., brown-gray 4" to 3" beds - mottled zone 1' at base small red-bellied stepfella occur common throughout. 17' 10) Shale + shaly ls - 6" beds of white ss. 12' 11) Ls. like 9 10'
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12) LS., gray, 1'-2' beds, vertical fracture on cleathering. Coll. 4-12A - 3' up 4-12B - 12' up problematic from 1-12C - 22' up 4-12D - 32' up top of bench 13) LS., dark gray, calcareite, 6" to 1' bed. Coll. 4-13A - 20' up Follows - Neal fence here up - 23' 14) Shales, brown, grades upward into clayey LS + finally into a calcarenite at top Coll. 4-14 at top - 27' 15) LS., light to mid. gray, 6" to 1' bed coll. 4-15A - 12' up coll. 4-15B - 50' up thick beds commonly reach 10-15' in this unit 4-15C - 78' up 106' 16) LS., med gray, little shale, 6" to 2' beds, rubble in part - Coll. 4-16A - 3' up - Coll. 4-16B - 26' up several beds of dolostone common vt. calcareite - becomes dark gray above 30' & light gray above 42' Coll. 4-16C - 43' up Coll. 4-16D - 58' up 59' 17) LS., light gray, silty, 3" to 1' beds rubble with thin shale bands - small "Staffella" juveniles common in beds. - above 33' dark gray - small, subcylindrical fossil preserved by dolomite (47') 52' 18) Dolostone, brown-gray + LS., gray-brown 4-18A - 11' up 27' 19) LS., light gray, 2-4' beds, silty, clayey, 37'
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20) LS., med gray to light-gray, thin bedding 2" to 6" - and shale dietetum. dolomitic; Coll. 4-20A - a 2' calcsrite 26' up --- 37' 21) LS., light gray to cream, massive 3 to 5'-beds with thin bedded aud. gray Ca. rubble bed Coll. 4-21 A -- 30' up rubble bed Coll. 4-21 B - 35' up massive bed Coll. 4-21 C - 42' up --- 54' 22) LS., light gray, 2" to 4" beds, fossils are common but dolomitized -- 82' 23) LS., light-gray - Massive 2' beds, Coll. 4-23A - 17' up 4-23B - 29' up --- 34' 24) LS., light gray to cream, thin irregular beds, 2" to 4" beds - Laminated; pink tones about 65'-80' --- 87' 25) LS., light brown gray, wavy bedding in beds 2' to 3', massive, clay^ cicity: SEVERAL SMALL FAULTS --- 97' 26) LS., med. gray, 2' beds, with brown shale cycles of these, the shale gradually becoming dominant ---193' up to here - Neal Gate This is very near the base of the Lost Front Bed -- delete
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1/20/59 V4-26m - 1/2 mile east section 4, 25' below fossil bed. V 4-28 mB - 1/2 mile east sec 4, from a 35' to 40' light gray ls. above fossil bed. - 8' up V 4-28 ma - 5' up V 4-27ma - fossilbed, silicified gast above 2-3' ls ledge - 15' below top V 4-28 mc - 35' above Fossil Bed V 4-29 ma - massive ls about 25' above top 4-28 - 27.) Fossil bed, a) basal calcirudite 28' b) shale + ls, shale is brown; ls. is medium gray, abundant siliceous fossils - brachiopods, coll. y Bryozoa. yellow-white. 27' 28) ls., mid-gray, 1'-3' beds, dolomitic, calcite nodules, coll. # - 28A - 42' up Onychophora common coll. 4-28B - 64' up top of hill - 89' - 1/5/1 29) ls, brown-gray, 2-4' beds, with lime and white chert pebbles -24' 30) Shale + limestone, brown-siliceously; dolomitic or dolomitized ls. 2' beds - 28' 31) Dolostone, dark gray-brown, 4' beds - 21' 32) ls., lightgray with "graphic" dolo- to beds - 12' 33) ls, conglomerate (calcirudite) with chert pebbles - 3-4' beds - 9'
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34) Lbs, lcliers - 25' used modus 35) Dolostone, tra-sig, jettis - 250'ext. ↑ Start here Call #1 - Word 2A ls - 25' up Word 2B ls - 50' There are { Word 2C ls - 65'up (top) 10-15' above the top of } the 2nd ls } Word 2D ls - about same height as 2c - 35', separated from it by lliers cl., and 2D is from saddle Word 2E - 25'above 2d 35' below First Masson Limestone in 3rd Word ls. Word 3rd ls. A - 5'up Word 3rd ls. B - 8'up Word 3rd ls C - 18'up 12' dolomite-type ridge total thick gts. 35' Word 1st ls. - 20' below topy King's unit "a" Call. 4- Word 1a The Word ls. contain a lot of conglomeratic stuff - most jetties + cobble of ls., probably silica formation in part, and fine that jetties - where we saw the formation, the basal ls. (#1a is very little different from #1b although King's separation isnt too bad. The distance between #1 & #2 is close to 83' than 14' and I think these numbers are reversed on p.143. The distance between #2 & #3 is a little high - unit 6 becomes 15. and 5 has four different to figure in it.
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7/21/59 The south side of Demand is complicated by: a) facies changes b) irregular calcinization beds c) several faults I have perhaps drawn the top of the teaofliths for a little high but we'll let it stand for the moment - Changes on the teaofliths formation here as an eroded anticline (pre-Demand). Jail Canyon where road & dam map - 1) No Altuda shale on SW end of H.I. 5789 - This is King's Capitan upper member - 2) Vidrio = Capitan upper member apparently + it seems likely that altudas h+ lower white are equal to upper part of Vrd. Section 5 Jail Canyon Section on East Sidey Old Blue Mt. Jail Canyon Covered below 1) LS, midgray, 2-4" beds, gastegodes + curved Columella, re-kallied; -'15' 2) LS, (bruff) light brown weathering, 6"-1' beds, silicious bands - 8.5' 3) LS, midgray, pitted weathering surface, 2-5' bed (similar to unit 4) lenses of calcarin't (Coll 3A) - 51' 4) SS, orange-brown to light brown, weathering, 2" to 6" beds, stasty calcite cement, "silicious" bands are irregular throughout unit - 112' 5) LS, midgray, calcarin't. - 2-6' beds, silicified + replaced fossils - Jail Canyon - 5A - 3'y+. Congl. part - v.f. calcarin't to 1"-2" globes - calcarin't (See King's Sec. 16quin) 20+/- 6) LS, tan, calcilutit + SS, pinchers out to South - 10' 30-40' or ridge 40yd N.
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7). Ls, med. gry, 2'-3' beds, to top of Hill. This unit 3 is missing where we measured section but became thicker to SW — This units 3+2 = upper part of this unit 1 sw corga nc on sed Gail Canyon [3 3/4 miles N 30W] of Skinner Rock The Word ls. which King mapped along the west side of Gilliland Canyon is probably his 3rd ls. not the first one. (Colt. Iron Mt. red Word ls. A) as from this — includes a few scattered fossils, cephalopods and a "Scootbulle" trackbed. There seems to be no need for the fault further SW. The top of the hill we climbed is a terna block The Gilliland Anticline goes out to the south of this point & beds again here 10°NW dip
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Elbow - Neas Canyon - 7/16/59 200'+ dolomitic Viduri 45'con. E-30'yug. D 18'yug. C 2'yug. B 3 22', like #1 A 2 8' front slab SS. + dolomitc ls. 10-15' silicified Cg. can
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7/22/59 Clay side- The upper part behind is badly covered by terra blocks from the Word Lot above. CS-B Coll. B 20' 37' top of ridge calc. cut - paper & ls. lyth - 1" beds & ls. ts (calc.) or calc. solid land 14' dk chert + ss (lrg) - 2" beds - some forest bed ls. lenses 90' covered CS-X1 CS-X2 2 collectors from float Shale, sl., & oargels. 35'-1+ crowns
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Clay List Account Call. Ve mile SW of Kings airport 120 along road. Sullivan Rock Road - J. Clay Shale Scrap - junction 3 collections - 20 { 1 Wood ls C - in lower 20' g gray Conisto 25 { 2 Brown to yellow weathering beds 35 { 3 Word ls D in lower part of Maxine rethelged ls. 10' up Wod ls E, 6' below topy ridge 7/23/59 Morning - climbed from the "Hess" ledge up to the 2nd Leonard ls. - made three collections based on Kings sect. 12 The base of the Capita at Sullivan peak is a beautiful unconformity - 40' or more relief and parallel bedding. Afternoon - sawy little knob of Cooper's second by Texas Hills - base of hill shale + siltstone bed avg 10 deg to the S10W and Cooper's knob 60', 2nd Leonard ls. ls. ~~~ 3 coll. ss orange brown shale-gray This section is cut by a youth of faults and the exact relation of the fault is dubious - it is probably the 2nd Leonard ls, but? ```_B-> 1st L -> C (top) 35' 3 collection
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The Leonard facies in the Denver hills consists of a series of ls tongues which tend to become thinner to the S.W. and break up into a number of thin units by additional shale tongues. The structural problems are big especially in the area south of Sullivan Pass, between Durgout Mts. and the Altada Ridge. Of course it is all covered but there is still a real problem to figure out. Kings map is wonderful, but he isnt very consistent about his boundary between the Word and Capitan - his Leonard + Word also have problems - the carbonate sed which he places in the Leonard in the west is about the right height for his 1st Wnd limestone in the east. I.E. It seems the Word Leonard boundary is also inconsistent. The base of the Wnd in the west seems to be about the 3rd ls. of the central Mts. In Section 12 his unit is greatly thinned and may represent the key between the Lockney facies to the east and the bas to the west.
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7/24/59 Decie Ranch - Sullivan Peak Coll. from lower 25' of Littleton Wells of Kings Sect. 12 Coll. " " B float 25' below top Coll. " " C in place 20' " " Coll. " " D " " 10' " " B+C+D are from Kings bed 3 Kings Wood bed 4's couple - 3-4" ls cobbles from sponge beds lce and bs, some clud. Coll - King 12 - whole Coll. Kings Sect 12, Wood bed 5- 12' up Coll. f Kings Sect 12, bed 6 - 7038 Coll from float from Kings bed 18, Sect 12 1/25/59 - Iron Mt. Ranch Section 5A Covered below 1) Siltstone as shale, with thin platy sandstone, yellow-brown weathering, 1/4-1" beds - 58' 2) Calcarenite, mud gray weathering, fossil ls. 1' ledge, Coll 5A-2 1' 3) LS., orange-gray weathering, fossil hash & brachid & benthic - Coll.5A-3-1 4) Dunestone, orange-brown weathering, sandy, fossil bs - Coll.5A-4 D' 2' 5) Sandstone, yellow-brown weathering, lining, 1' to 6" beds 27' 6) LS., mud. gray, 1' to 2' beds, even bedding) Coll.5A-6A Coll. 5A-6x float -2' 7) Siltstone as sandstone, yellow-brown, with lining beds of siltstone. 37
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8) Ls., med gray, massive beds - 5 to 10' cliffs, thin irregular brow chert bands - 56' 9) Siltstone + shale, covered for most part, yellow to light brown weathering, upper 15' becomes a sandstone - 123' 10) Ls., med gray; basal 2-3 a calcirudite, becomes finer grained upwards, fuvellid common in a 6-12" band just above cngos. Coll 5A-10 - 8' 11) Siltstone + shale, yellow to green-gray, 4/8' 12) Ls., gray weathering, 3" to 1' beds, thin (1/2") siltinite beds - 4' 13) Sandst. siltstone sequence, gay to ory-brown weathering - 62' 14) Ls., calcirudite, gray, 3-6" beds - 5' 15) Sandstone, ory-brown, 6" to 6' beds; calcareous cement - 56' 16) Calcilutute, bn-gray weathering, 2" to 3' beds, irregular bands of chert (3 cycles) modules, grades upwards into quarty sandstone beds; at 56-60 there are several cmmy shell bed - calcified fossils - Coll. 5A-16 at 60' - 137' 17) Ls., brown-yellow weathering, 6" to 2' beds scattered white chert patches, cliff forms, saccharoidal with purple weathering patches, pitted surface - 25' 18) Ls., bwn-gray weathering, 6" beds - 17' Unconformity - 8' grrelief in 100 yards along slite. 19) Dolostone, brown-gray, rubbly cemented by clear calcite matrix - grows foggy ridge - 65'+ ↑ Start here
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Section 5 Section at West end of Road Canyon kjs fault contact by the Wrd against Vidoro is true, although there is possibly a fault 100 yard further up the hill to the 9S dig S70W Vidior 10 dolostone, brown-gray with haze clear Calcite Xalls and a calcite matrix (Coll-y this) ---- 6 to 12' unconformable contact 9 ls., calcilutite, yellow-brown 2"-6" beds with chert nodules ---- 12' 8 Ss., dark brown weathering, silicous bands with calcareous cement where calc. coats and remains weather to light yellow-brown ---- 32' 7 ls., calcilutite, yellow brown weathering, brown on fresh surface - 1' to 2' beds patches of cherty Xalls ---- 20' 6 ls., mid-gray, massive limestones 1' to 4' thick in rocks like above unit ---- 12' 5 ls., yellow-brown weathering, brown chert nodules, 0" beds ---- 18' Coll. of fossils for him - 4 Ss., dark yellow-brown weathering, 1' to 3' beds chert Xalls ---- 8' 3 ls., yellow brown weathering, brown chert nodules, 6" to 1' beds ---- 10' 2 S.s., dark brown, silicous, ---- 6' 1 ls., light grey weathering, platy, (possibly top of 3rd Word?) ---- 10' sandstone - Covered beneath
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Section 4A 7/26/59 Examined the middle of Kny's Sect.12, Burnthill, and renewed it in part, one looks. Then drove to Hess-Hall boundary fence and examined from road north to the top, the ridge and across the rolling slope 400 yds. Section along Hess-Hall boundary fence 1) Ls, dark gray, silicified fossil beds, 3'66" beds 20'± 2) Covered, probably siliceous shale — 126' (3) Ls, mud gray, finely laminated, very silty with beds of brown siliceous replacement, lenses of fossiliferous calcareous (Call 10' from top) 84' 4) Dolostone, "dirty" gray, 5' beds, a yellow weathering ls 6" about 20' up, 40' 5) Shale, red-brown weathering, 10' 6) Like 4 below 30'± 1st Wadls 2nd Wadls
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7/27/59 Dugout Mt. Section Section 7 - Sp 14 Silicons siltstone below 1) LS, mid gray weathering, 1 to 2' beds, bands of brown silted, gravel back, conglomeratic, chert pebbles up to 1" diam. _ 24' 2) LS, mid gray, layers of shell hash up to 6' thick, silicified nodules common, Coll. 7-2 _ 3' up becomes interbedded with blue-gray calcareous argilace- Coll. 7-2 B - 31' up shale breaks at 35' + 40' Total - 53' 3) Shale, silicons with chert bands, and thin LS. calceretus _ 8'
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4) Calcirudite, brown weathering, 6" cobbles in 4' beds of shale w/ calcareous, red brown in 6' beds Calcirudite has abundant silicified brals. 27' 5) Calcarente, gray, 1" grading up into quartz s.s. 12' 6) Calcarente, med to dark gray, 1' beds, Coll "7-6A - 1"up? a few pebbles - calcarenites have siliceous through the pores - gets circle of color. upper part a conglomerate - dolomite also in patches. 18' 7) Sandstone, red brown weathering, 1' conglomerate but pebbles in s dolast. + silicea matrix, 4 repetitions - 30' 8) LS, brown weathering, shell beds, some beds conglomeratic, silicious deposits in beds, 1' to 2' beds, -- 40' to top of knoll 9) In the next three beds change facies into orthogratite, siliceous shales, to a large extent. above beds which I think are the same as unit 8 there are 10) Sandstone and shale, friable, yellow to red-brown weathering, some beds? dark from silicious shale. 30' 11) Sandstone, light brown, orthogratite and thin beds of shales 15' (60 WNW/dip) 12) Covered above, saw beds on exposed but strikes are possible or apparent. The sequence is broken by several faults. (Kg 525' out) 400'
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12) Shale, yellow-brown weathering,-part siliceous 25' of good 13) Conglomerate, local lenses- -30' 14) LS.+ shale, gray+yellow -232' 15) LS, yellow-gray weathering, finely laminated with some chalky bands, lenses of calcareous- Coll 7-15A-5'up Coll 7-15B 12'up " 7-15C 17' total 17' 16) Shale, yellow-brown, thinly laminated, lenses of calcareous with ground hash -14' 17) LS., med. gray, 1'-massive beds, fossilbed calcareous Coll. 7-17A. -1'up -2' 18) Shale+ S.S., red-brown to yellow, thinly laminated, siliceous, one 6" calcilutite bed in middle -10' 19) LS., mid gray, conglomeratic in lower part, calcareous higher- Coll. 7-19A- 6'up 7-19B- 1/2'up -2' 20) LS., brown to red-brown weathering, siliceous, thinly laminated, 1" beds, fossils 260' 21) LS., brown-red, cliff former, 6" to 3'beds, conglomeratic, -60' 22) LS., dark gray, conglomeratic -2' 23) Covered 37' 24) LS, light gray to chalky weathering, a series of ledges; fossil bed -35' Fault No. 8 S.S. [crossed out] (dip 60 to the ESE) 02 25) Calcareous, light gray to brown weathering, 2"to1'beds Coll. 7-25A 6'up Coll. 7-25B 10'up -12'
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26) Grand up 14° to the WNW 27) Ls, brown weathering, 1' to 3' thick, X bedded locally, congl. in bands - 70' up a Cylhlogos locality Cocl. 7-27A 110' 28) Ls. dark gray, 6" beds, calcarenite 7-28 A - 5' up 7-28 B - 12' up 20' of light brown calcutute 7-28 C - dark gray ls. 4' up 12' y brown silico slate + siltste. 8' of ls. black, 7-28 D 6' up 10' of silicio slate 4' of vf gia, l Calcaunt 7-28E 29) Ss., bry + silico sch. 62' 30) ls, calcutute, yellow-bu + siltite. 50' up alternating in cycles - chert nodules common upper part 175' as far as I went. 31) Gry Caples dolomite ↑ Start Here 1/28/59- Tried to close down Kij's section my Little Blue Hts - met a Mr. Molts who was a great - The freundlich in Kij sect 17, p. 17 and mostly funny spots in the ls. but are least apparently freundlich his Hichwater here is about right.
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7/29/59 Section 2A Walcott Falls Ranch. Cored below Sect. 2A 1) Dolostone, brown to gray brown weathering, 1 to 2' beds, chert pebble lenses _48' 2) Ls, med. gray, 6" to 1' beds, fossil-beds mainly calcite: Corel 2A-2A 24' up 2A-2B 26' up 2A-2C 31' up 2A-2D 43' up 2A-2E 48' up (platy gypsum) 2A-2F 62' up 20' Total 67' 3) Ls, gray, 1-2' beds, abundant fossils, almost q fossil bed total - Corel 2A-3A - 2' up - 14' -> Key's below the word 4) Dolostone, probably then 3 below originally
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Sect. 2B - Fiddle ranch 4) Dolostone, gray-brown mottling, pitted surface (relic [illegible]), 1'-3" beds poorly calcified brachiopod bed about 25' up — Total-85' 5) Dolostone, light gray in lower 200' becomes med gray in upper part — ext. ———— 700' 1-3' beds
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