Field Notebook: Texas 1959
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20) S.s., brown to red-brown weathering, siliceous, thinly laminated, 1" beds, friable ------ 260'. 21) S.s., brown-red, cliff former, 6" to 3' beds, conglomeratic. ------ 60'. 22) Limestone, dark gray, conglomeratic ------ 2'. 23) Covered ------ 37'. 24) Limestone, light gray to chalky weathering, a series of ledges, fossil hash -- ---- 35'. [Fault N of Ss cuesta] (dip 6° to the ESE) 25) Calcarenite, light gray to brown weathering, 2" to 1' beds. Collection 7-25A 6' up. Collection 7-25B 10' up. Total -------- 12'. PG. 74 26) Covered 27) S.s., dip 14° to the WNW, brown weathering, 1' to 3' beds, cross bedded locally, conglomerate in bands - 70' up a Cephalopod locality. Collection 7-27A ----110'. 28) Limestone, dark gray, 6" beds, calcarenite. Coll. 7-28A --5' up. Coll. 7-28B --12' up. 20' of light brown calcilutite Coll. 7-28C dark gray limestone ---4' up. 12' of brown siliceous shale and siltstone 8' of limestone, black, Coll. 7-28D --6' up. 10' of siliceous shale. 4' of very fine grained calcarenite. Coll. 7-28E. 29) S.s., brown and siliceous shale -------- 62'. 30) Limestone, calcilutite, yellow-brown and siltstone alternating in cycles - chert nodules common in upper part - 175'. ------more than 50' (up as far as we went). 31) Gray Capitan dolomite. [Start Here] PG. 75 7/28/59 Tried to chase down King's section up Little Blue Mt. - met a Mr. Mills who was of great -[help] [Mills is son-in-law of Ferguson and now, 7/59, is taking care of Little Blue Mtn. pasture.] The fusulinids in King Sect. 17, p. 77 are mostly funny spots in the limestone but are not apparently fusulinids. His thicknesses here is about right. PG. 76 Blank PG. 77