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The Colefax appears to have no matured species, rather
all of the species appearing to be immature.
small in many specimens.
Then too the limestone appears
to one type of an intro-pretential character, i.e., rolled
of sea bottom destroying all life.
All of the limestones seen today are impure and they
are often associated with sandstone while the introduced
shales are usually sandy. All of the limestone give way to
shale on
sandstone to the south and west.
The rest of the Penn. section to the east of Bartlesville
is as follows:
Permian
{ Breford li
Cottonwood li
Vera li
Forks li.
Pennsylvanian
Red sands, thin bedded 50 to 75 ft
Parkhurst - Topeka, Deer Creek, Grand li, 100 ft.
To the north these fan into a thick series of fine-
bedded sandstone.
Grant li. about two miles long.
Then the section seen today, and described above.