Field Notebook: Texas 1959
Page 118
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
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