Field Notebook: Texas 1924
Page 44
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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