Field Notebook: Texas 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 -