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Loc. 3 Word 4 limestone - [Collection] A-12' up in ledge probably #3 [Word
Limestone]. 3/4 mile up valley [Collection] B-16' up in ledge, from earthen tank.
This is not too close to the massive beds at the top of the ridge - which King calls
Vidrio - say 125' to 150' below the Vidrio - The sequence is a silty, dirty limestone
in 2" to 6" beds with a few scattered fusulinids in some of the more indurated
beds -
[See later page for Word 4-Vidrio Section.]
PG. 31
Road Canyon, East end-meager collection from Word third limestone
--------35' up (A)
{note: illustration:
bed 1: 3rd limestone, goniatite bed, --35'.
bed 2: orange-brown ss., with a few thin (6") yellow-gray limestone.----250'.
bed 3: limestone silicified - 6'.
bed 4: shale or covered ---145'.
bed 5: limestone 7' silicified fossils. ----7'.
bed 6: Ss., orange-brown, ---120'.
bed 7: dolo-limestone, ---25'.
bed 8: Sandy dolomite limestone, ---18'.
bed 9: dolo-limestone, -----3'.
PG. 32
There is a fault cutting the SE face of section at Road Canyon - also several
Terra Blocks have dropped down. The Word 4 limestone lenses are just about
gone here with the Vidrio dolo. lying conformable but with an abrupt lithologic
change. [probably unconformity here]
PG. 33
7/17/59
Sect. 5 Leonard Mt-
0) (see p. 36, 2 pages over) Covered below - mainly dolomitic and
limestone interfingering in tongues and patches.
1) Limestone, medium to dark gray or fresh surface, massive 10 to 20' beds,
Sacchinella zone of G.A.Cooper, weathers to rounded surfaces, one 5-6' zone
of shaly 1' limestone beds 65' up ---112'.
2) Limestone, dark gray, 1 to 2 foot beds, crinoid and bryozoan fragments -
43'.
Leonard Formation±
3) Limestone, medium to dark gray, 6" to 2' beds, caps ridge, a few pits,
angular weathering - conglomeratic locally - 37'. Collection 5-3.
4) Limestone, dark gray, 3" to 1' beds - 12'.
5) Calcirudite, 4" cobbles, with 4' of dark gray 6" limestone, in middle - 34'.
top of ridge. Collection 5-5 Leonard anthill top of ridge.
6) Limestone, light gray, shell hash, silicified in part - 3'. [Wilde's locality -
Collection 5-2 gully probably about bed 2].