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"This page is out of place, So 4 pages
forward in continuation of this one"
Marathon, Texas, March 20-1924. Thursday.
The days fine and mild dilapidated Ford
that looks like it will break down any minute.
I start with a boy as chaperon for Wolfcamp,
We go into the Hers ranch east of Ont. Leonard
to make enquiries and then head directly
for the little double buttes that lie in part
of the lower part of the Sloan Mountains,
at Wolfcamp.
Above the bajada one goes across fairly
unexplored hills, initially oolite, in a depth of about
180 ft., then appears a thick bedded li. 17
ft. thick (Beddins no. 7). Then follows about
100 more of green shales to a thicker li.
(green II) that caps the buttes.
I collected with the aid of a boy all day
in these shales (green 8) and ranging in the lower
half of the 80 ft. of this green, bit about 60
ammo units of which about 40 are good, I am
not sure that I got the 12 species described from
this place by Böse, but I know that I have