Field Notebook: Texas 1959
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71) Ss., like 60 - 9'. 72) Shale, gray in 5-15' bed, alternating with ss in 6" beds - 53'. 73) Ss., like 69 - 3'. 74) Shale, gay; friable ss (white and purple) and 6" ledges of resistent ss - 38'. 75) Ss., like 69 - 3.5'. 76) Covered for most part - some purple-brown limestone with large calcite crystals, and ss. - 22'. 77) Ss., like 69 - 2.5'. 78) Shale and Ss., (orange) - 22'. 79) Ss., gray to brown, cross bedded - 6'. PG. 19 80. Ss., orange-brown, like 69 - 12'. ---------Subtotal 184' 81) Limestone, light to medium gray, chert frags, common, 2' to 3' beds. [27' up an orange-brown weathering silty limestone] - 45'. 82) Ss., - light brown - grades vertically into silty fine grained limestone {note: illustration followed} - 15'. 83) Like 82 - 17'. 84) Like 82 - from limestone at top-Collection 1-84 - 12'. ---------Subtotal 44' 85) Limestone, gray-brown, 6" to 2' beds fossil hashes - 25'. 86) Like 82 - 12'. Limestone has algal plates. PG. 20 87) Limestone, blue-gray, 3" to 6" beds, fine shell hash, recrystallized fusulinids in a few beds - 35'. 88) Covered - one or two thin limestone ledges - 22'. 89) Limestone, medium-gray, ironstone nodules common, 6" to 2" beds, fossils recrystallized. - 35'. ---------Subtotal 92' 90) Shale and Ss., - 7' to 10' bed alternating with limestone, dark gray - 52'. Traversed NW 150 yards. 91) Covered - 11'. 92) Limestone, medium gray, brown "tubes" on weathered surface. 1/2'. 93) Covered for most part, ss. orange, limestone purple and siltstone yellow, outcrop in patches - 3.5'. ---------Subtotal 95.5' PG. 21 94) Limestone, medium gray, 2" to 2' beds with some covered intervals - 34'. Calcite crystals - replaced fossils? 95) Covered - 7'. 96) Limestone, mottled gray and orange-brown weathering 3" to 6" beds - 11'. 97) Covered - 21'.