Field Notebook: Texas 1959
Page 106
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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.