Field Notebook: Texas 1924
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"Anthrocolitic System" or Carbonifera Cent & N. Texas D. Trans Pecos Ch. Trans Pecos Permian Double Ont Tenny 1400 Red Beds Clear Fork Williams 2600 Rustler Wichita/Albany Vidrio 200.. Castile/Capitan Limestone Lord 700 Delaware Mt Leonard 2000 Hueco li. Jrs. Jers. 2100 O p. 41. (intercalated?) Phosphoraria Cioco ------------------- Baftank 2000 Canyon [ Mt. maling according to Stawn Baker] Bench {Smithmill Wagnmind 500 Maulte Falls, Dimple 925 L. Bench Tesnus 3370} Mininippian? - - - <- Santiapcheit. Mininippian (Santiapr cheit). 1) Then redded sherts 20-440. 41 Albick partly hinder book Tesnus formation, 3370' Rough Creek shale at base 865' from to Haed, hard, brittle sh., with abore ss. rd. chert and lenses, of empl. Mine or in E. than in W. Does only land plant, chiefly Calamites. Some marine forms to N.W. near Houston P.R.R. On Hargis Rand. In E. only land plants. Look for marine forms in anticlines just north 5 miles pnt 500 m Staupin Ranch. 2) Rough Creek is east of Tesnus, and the Creek flows S into San Francisco Creek (101). No fossils. Baker thinks the Tesnus = Otavie. Strait of anticline of Tesnus beds is at junction of Rough and Lower San Francisco creeks. Throughout the S.E. area the Tesnus contact forms in overthrust, (104).