Field Notebook: Texas, Oklahoma 1919
Page 49
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"The [illegible] has [illegible], and is 1200 ft thick. Has many marine fossils and in general appears to be like those [illegible]. Coal is present in some formations. In the Canyon are [illegible] for that rock. Brownwood, Wednesday March 19-1919. Got up at 6:30 and at 8 o'clock are on our way to Janota. The day is again fine and cool. As we go south we are for a while [illegible] on the Canyon and at about 17 miles south we are again upon Comancheria. Here the basal beds are brick red coarse and muddy very irregular bedded sandstone. There are many sorts of ling concretions and thin sheets of caliche or bedded gypsum, and tiny dikes of impure [illegible] gypsum. Rain printing are seen. It is the prevailing strata and on the land side rather than on the marine side. This gritzy thick and thin 25ft changes into more regular bedded and fine grained sandstone. Then still higher are white ling very firm grained sandstone that looks much like a breathend [illegible] Mr. [illegible] tells me that ery from gypsum are sometimes seen in it. In one