Field Notebook: Texas, Oklahoma 1919
Page 51
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place we saw this bed of sandstone resting the Cayuga series. After are set from the Chemungian high land we pass down into the valley of the Owl rocks, and then all theory to San Saba we are in the strawn. What we see on the road side are thin and thick bedded light greenish sandstones and by an scant the inter- bedded with Hurist shale. These sandstones throughout show current structures, small flms striated and [illegible] structures, occassional [illegible] and rain petrifications. Of plants there is not as much as one expects but we saw plenty comminuted pieces of ptiloma corrus and Calamites. This a fine grained cheery marked light greenish sandstone, and pods are the improper as being contorted by long worms delinual on long serpentous. Drake reports that he design with marine forms. Left to San Saba at noon. After lunch we went southeast to Barnett Spring which is 4 miles N.E. of San Saba. Here in the stream one sees the top of the Ellenstruyger very fine grained dolomite that at the top also has a little of milky white. calc. At the top saw sections of several species of gastropods. The top of the Ellenstruyger is slightly irregular and