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Saturday
Comstock - San Antonio, April 10, 1936,
Left Comstock at 7.30 A.M. & it to Del
Rio, 30 miles E, at 8:30.
The small Eurygyra arietina slat is from
5 miles W. of Del Rio
From Del Rio to San Antonio it is 16 1/2 miles.
At mr 10 miles W. of Uvalde are stopped at
the large road metal quarry in the Cenachua
limestone of the upper Cretaceous. Here the lower
12 ft or y li. are chayed through out with asphalt
and this forms li. but is a good illustration
where oil design looks like under ground.
It in this lower that is quarried and the over-
lying material is stripped away. The section here
is about as follows:
Soil at mr 2 feet
Chalky li., at mr 5 feet.
Impedrious clay 7-10 feet.
Asphalt li., about 12 feet. Have of thin
layers from pieces.
Five miles E. of Uvalde passed a great
plug of intrusive Basalt of the Texas Trap
Rock Co. And it is in Columina Dallas