Field Notebook: Texas 1959
Page 35
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7/16/59 Elbow in Hess Canyon [note: illustration] Bed 1. Ss., and dolomitic limestone with silicified layers.--10-15' Bed 2. Fusulinid hash. Coll. A. -----8' Bed 3. Like #1. --------------22' Bed 4: Limestone, well-bedded, in 2' beds, fusuliniferous. Coll. B in basal bed. Coll. C, 2' up; Coll. D, 18' up; Coll. E 30' up. --------total about 35'. Bed 5. Covered. ----------------45' Bed 6. dolostone, Vidrio Member -------200'+, PG. 54 Blank PG. 55 7/22/59 Clay Slide - The upper part of Leonard is badly covered by terrva blocks from the Word limestone above. [note: illustration] Covered below. Bed 1. Shale, ss., and orange limestone. two collections from float. CS-X1 and CS- X2, --------------35'+. Bed 2. Covered ------------90'. Bed 3. Shale, black chert, and limy ss. in 2" beds; some fossil hash limestone lenses.--------14'. Bed 4. Limestone (calcilitute) with lenses of shell hash, Collection A (CS-A.), 19' up. ---------23'. Bed 5. Calcilutite, papery limestone, light gray, 1" beds, Collection B ( CS-B) at 20'. -------37'. Top of Ridge PG. 56 Clay Slide King's ammonite collection locality, 1/2 mile SW of King's dip symbol "12". along road. Sullivan Ranch Road and Clay Slide limestone cap - junction [where limestone that caps Clay Slide mets road]. 3 Collections: 20' -1) Word Limestone Coll. C - in lower 20' of gray limestone. 25' -2) Brown to yellow weathering bed. 35' -3) Word limestone Coll. D in lower part of massive recrystallized limestone 10' up. Word limestone Coll. E, 6' below top of ridge.