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Fort Worth, March 23-1956
Tuesday.
Had a car take me four miles S.E. to Texas
Christian University, and first met Eagleforth and
then Profson Dr. All Grinton. Spent the morning tally
over the [illegible] formation as a repressive one. At
first I could not see it so but after a while it be-
came clearer that the last Texas Cretaceous was a
shallow sea spreading north through Trinity time and re-
maining a shallow sea during Fredericksburg time. See
the photo of the dinosaur tracks found at Glen Rose
Texas. Then turned later [illegible] time a subsiding area
began along the Red River region that opened out into
the Gulf of Mexico to the South East. The [illegible]
in the repressive sand phase of this sea. It is thought
that the older strata of the [illegible] are to the south
and over and they young to the east and Southeast.
The later Buda = Ruda in Frasnian in age while
the [illegible] in Cenomanian. These correlations [illegible]
gets from Prof. Killiam of Grenoble Unit, France. The
first beds of the higher [illegible] are Upper Cretaceous and
there is a break (supposed fault) between it and the
Lower [illegible]. This first bed is found in the Eagle
Ford. See the paper Scott (me) gave me and which
he is to read Thursday at the G.G.P., Et.
In the afternoon Grinton and Scott took me about