Field Notebook: Texas, Oklahoma 1919
Page 71
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"Blue sandy crinoid limestone. Are they not so abundant. In places the crinoidal matter is scarce. These are retest inda. Membranif Ellenstyn li, with Ophileta and Cryptogrom. the higher land of We then drove out of the San Jata valley to a Richland Springs. Our road soon left the Bend and we went over the stream to Hall where we saw did to be here not more than two feet thick. The last of the stream. Then the road descended into [There is some doubt of this dense statement!] the Smithwick Dale and then we came to higher decided cross-hatched to be land we were in the sandstone cut about a mile or so of the so-called Canyon. All the fossils are of chert, Hercul, tancle, white, gravisf and brown. Where did these cherts come from? Some are undoubtedly by the Ellenstyn, and others for the Bend, but some are for other formations. The road descended a little more and then we came in the Comanchian, a good land of many fans, but of dry climate always. And a rolling country with a relief of at most of 50 feet. It has been to grow very since Cretaceous Times. The streams have cut down windy and then fertile valleys. through the Penna and Bend into the Ellenstyns. We left Baird at 8.40 P.M. for the rough Frisco