Field Notebook: Texas 1924, 1925
Page 51
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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