Field Notebook: Texas 1959
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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'