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Of what age the salt is in the Coastal domes I could not say, but surmised it to be of Eocene age.
I added that I knew of no acid thins in the Eocene.
The leading geologists merely came not convinced
with my presentation, but I think no one will claim
to know the actual age of the salt in the domes.
I understand there is Permian underground
at Uvalde, Texas. The red beds and anhydrite
at Malone Texas called by Chapin Upper Jurassic
C L Baker has shown me an unpublished small
ride of Permian age.
Dumble said there is much anhydrite a
sypsum in the older Cengric of N.E. Mexico's. Lost
this up.
Plummer and Hager traced the Leff. Our trend
S.W. from Belf to about Houston area. Plum-
mur said there was an underground ridge lately
Jackson Min that has the trend of the Leff. Look
up this matter; it cannot, however, apply to older
time than the Permian.
Prouss shows in his paper of 1946 that the out
of Okla., Ark and beneath Red River have an E-W
a better slightly S.E trend. Runs counter to the