Field Notebook: Texas 1959
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34) Limestone and shale, siliceous, w/ chert nodules .-----25' 35) Dolostone, brown-gray, pitted --------- 250' est. Word 2A limestone, Coll. 4 --25' up. Word 2B limestone (Coll.)-------50' up. The following (2C and 2D) are 10-15' above the top of the second limestone and separated from it by siliceous shale and sandstone. Word 2C limestone (Coll.) - 65' up (top). Word 2D limestone-about same horizon as Coll. from Word 2C. Word 2D is from saddle. Word 2E - 25' above 2D; 35' below first massive limestone in Third[?] Word limestone. PG. 47 Word third limestone A - 5' up. Word third limestone B - 8' up. Word third limestone C - 18' up. -----35' total thickness of limestone. Dolomite - 12' to top of ridge Word first limestone - Collection 4-Word 1a, 20' below top of King's unit "a" The Word limestone contain a lot of conglomeratic stuff at this place - most pebbles and cobbles of limestone probably intraformational in part, and fine chert pebbles - Where we saw the formation, the basal limestone (#1a is very little different from #1b although King's separation isn't too bad. The distance between #1 and #2 is closer to 83' than 14' and I think these members are reversed on King's 1930 page 143. The distance between #2 and #3 is a little high - unit 6 becomes limestone and unit 5 has fossiliferous limestone tongues in it. [This area is near the Wordian shelf break and thicknesses and facies change abruptly, so if we were offset a bit from King's line of section these differences would be understandable.] PG. 48 7/21/59 Southside of Leonard Mtn. The southside of Leonard Mtn. is complicated by: a) facies change b) irregular dolomitization of beds c) several faults I have perhaps drawn the top of the Lenox Hills Fm. a little high but we'll let is stand for the moment - [Changes on] the Lenox Hills Fm is thin here as if on an eroded pre-Leonardian anticline. Jail Canyon where road ends on map - 1) No Altuda shale on SW end of Hill 5789 - This is King's Capitan, upper member -