Field Notebook: Texas 1959
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98) Limestone, medium gray, silty and sandy - 2'. 99) Largely covered, probably siltstone, also every 4' to 10', a 6" ss (orange- brown) crops out - 48'. 100) Limestone, light gray, very silty, sandy, clayey, persist at beds - 2'. 101) Shale, largely covered, and Ss. 2 beds, orange-brown - 8'. 102) Covered, except for 3, 6" beds of ss - 31'. 103) Ss., orange-brown, limy cement, massive - 2'. ---------Subtotal 122' PG. 22 7/12/59 Section 3 Western part of Brooks Ranch remeasured King's Sect. 26 (probably closer to sect. 27 of King (King's 30) His bed numbers as shown in his sec. 26. King's beds 9) = S. crassitectoria zone with large Omphalotrochus Collection 3-(9)A first appearance at base of bed Coll. 3-(9)B - 35' up. -----------108' 10) Collection 3-(10)A - 5' up. Collection 3-(10)B - 50' up. ------270' 11) Double Ledge Coll. 3-(11)A - 2' up. 12) Collection 3-12X - 2 bag 15' up. Collection 3-12XA - 35' up. Staffella are common throughout the lower beds - (9) through (12) 13) Second ledge Coll. 3-13-A - 30' up. PG. 23 14) Coll. 3-14A - lower limestone ledge Coll. 3-14B - top of unit. Coll. 3-14C - algal bed. 16) Coll. 3-16 - 15' up. Coll. 3-16B - 35' up. 17) Coll. 3-(17) Coll. 3-17B - in section, 50' up. Base of King's fossil bed is a conglomerate. In Coll. 3-17B fusulinid occur with gonatite,s camacatochid, Omphalot, Thindeus. 18) Coll. 3-18A - base of bed we think King's pisolite bed, pisolites are fusulinids with algae coatings. Coll. 3-18B - 35' up. PG. 24 Near top of King's bed 19 or in the base of bed 19 - red siliceous shale and siltstone - 10' +- thick.