Field Notebook: Texas 1959
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Kin'sg Word bed 4 is conglomerate - 3" to 4" limestone cobbles from younger [older] Word or Leonard limestone, some chert. Collection - King 12 - Word 4. Collection King's Sect. 12, Word bed 5, 12' up. Collection from King's Sect. 12, bed 6 (maybe 9 or 8). Collection from float from King's bed 18, Sect. 12. PG. 61 7/25/59 Iron Mt. Ranch Section 5A covered below: 1) Siltstone and shale, with thin platy sandstones, yellow-brown weathering, 1/4"-1" beds ---- 58'. 2) Calcarenite, medium gray weathering, fusulinids. 1' ledge, Collection 5A-2 ----- 1'. 3) Limestone, orange and gray weathering, fossil hash of brachs and fusulinids - Collection 5A-3 ----1'. 4) Limestone, orange-brown weathering, sandy fusulinids - Collection 5A-4 -- -- 2'. 5) Sandstone, yellow-brown weathering, limy, 1' to 6" beds - ---------27'. 6) Limestone, medium gray, 1' to 2' beds, even bedding. Collection 5A-6A, Collection 5A-6X float -------- 2'. 7) Siltstone and sandstone, yellow-brown, with limy beds of same color - ------ 37'. PG. 62 8) Limestone, medium gray, massive beds, 5' to 10' cliffs, thin irregular brown chert bands.------ 56'. 9) Siltstone and shale, covered for most part, yellow to light brown weathering, upper 15' becomes a sandstone. - -----123'. 10) Limestone, medium gray; basal 2-3 a calcirudite, becomes finer grained upwards, fusulinids common in a 6-12" band just above conglomerate. Collection 5A-10 -- ---- 8'. 11) Siltstone and shale, yellow to green-gray. ----- - 48'. 12) Limestone, gray weathering, 3" to 1' beds, thin (1/2") shale interbeds.- -- ---4'. 13) Sandstone, siltstone sequence, tan to orange-brown weathering ------- 62'. 14) Limestone, calcilutite, gray, 3-6" beds. ------ 5'. PG. 63 15) Sandstone, orange-brown, 6" to 6' beds, calcarenous cement.