Field Notebook: Texas 1959
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funnelate, on rare - revivify when found. Gastropod - encrusted + ostracods locally abt to 2' -187' 11) shale, light gray, +ls., light gray sh - 2-5' thk. la. - 1/4 to 1' thk. 2-11 A 5' up 33-50' Ophiasteria pellucida common (18 is parvisulcata) 89' 12) limestone conglomerate, well sorted -25' 13) Sandstone, light brown, selected crinofract + brachiopods well sorted, fine sand - grade vertically into calcareous Coll. 2-13 A -32' To saddler - 158' 14) Dolostone - brown-gray, porous, sacccoidal, weather to patinated surface - 3-6' foot beds. - 10' 15) Limestone, light gray, 6" to 2' thick little in the way of shells or oolithes 2-15A - 42' up 2-15B - 65' up - 205' Several different limestones in this unit - all are highly assigned ooliths limestone. The more rubbly beds are red, size are are brown-gray. 4 to 5 alternation of grain size 16) Limestone, orange brown weathering, [select outlinings of funnelites (abundant) 5' at base] like 15 below Coll. 2-16A 53' [at 65' a bottle quartz ss. bed w/ sand fragments] [at 97' - silty red 1', brown-orange, brachiopod] Coll. 2-16 B. 185' -197'