Field Notebook: Texas 1959
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12) Limestone, gray, 1'-2' beds, vertical fracture on weathering. Collection 4- 12A - 3' up. Collection 4-12B - 12' up. Coll. 4-12C (Problematical fossil)- 22' up. Coll. 4-12D - 32' up. (and top of bench) ----32' 13) Limestone, dark gray, calcarenite, 6" to 1' beds. Collection 4-13A - 20' up. ------ 23'. Follows Neal fence here upwards 14) Shale, brown, grades upward into clayey limestone and finally into a calcarenite at top. Collection 4-14 at top - ---- 27'. 15) Limestone, light to medium gray, 6" to 1' bed. Collection 4-15A - 12' up. Collection 4-15B - 50' up. Shaly beds commonly reach 10-15' in this unit. Coll. 4-15C - 78' up. -- --106'. PG. 41 16) Limestone, medium gray, little shale, 6" to 2' beds, rubbly in part - Collection 4-16A - 3' up. Collection 4-16B - 25' up. Several beds of dolostone common very fine calcarenite - became dark gray above 30'; light gray above 42'. Collection 4-16C - 43' up. Collection 4-16D - 58' up. ------- 59'. 17) Limestone, light gray, silty, 3" to 1' beds rubbly - with thin shale bands -small "Staffella" fusulinids common in all beds - above 33' dark gray - small, subcylindrical fusulinids replaced by dolomite (47') --- 52'. 18) Dolostone, brown-gray and limestone, gray-brown, Coll. 4-18A - 11' up --- 27'. 19) Limestone, light gray, 2'-4' beds, silty, clayey; ----37'. PG. 42 20) Limestone medium gray to light gray, thin bedding 2" to 6", and shale and siltstone, dolomitic; Collection 4-20A - a 2' calcarenite 26' up ----- 37'. 21) Limestone, light gray to cream, massive 3' to 5' beds with thin bedded medium gray limestone. rubbly bed Collection 4-21A - 30' up. rubbly bed Collection 4-21B - 35' up. rubbly bed Collection 4-21C - 42' up. --- ----54'. 22) Limestone, light gray, 2" to 4" beds, fossils are common but dolomitized - ----------- ---------82'. 23) Limestone, light gray, massive, 2' beds. Collection 4-23A - 17' up. Collection 4-23B - 29' up. --- --------34'.