Field Notebook: Texas 1924
Page 11
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Transcription
"This opening [illegible]. I think it is the Cicer form, but the sponge Antiphonella, and I may have the "Fasculina cylindrica". Just how but they hold about the same place as hid in the sections these cherts are I do not know. 5790 South of mile post 580 there is a little [illegible] with an escarpment facing the south. Here then is either an unconformity or a local overthrust. Darker lim sandstone Dip N well measured. E-NE. This is not an erosional unconformity, but only my local tectonic unconformity. The and compensating resides the gradual structure, shale hereabout are in smaller domes, and these shales and sandstones have moved to accommodate the gradual folding. It has the same strike as the build out in the east. Had no lunch, or started back to Marathon at 3 P.M. This Jesnes is according to the fossil evidence hist penn set ran in = about Cicer.