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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
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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'
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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 -