Field Notebook: Texas, Oklahoma 1919
Page 83
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Claremore, Tuesday, March 25 - 1919. He left at 7.15 a.m. At Broken Arrow we are at the "Ter- minal Bluff" of the Big Zone, and is the town the last of the Fort Scott. We are now in the Arkansas Valley. East and south of this place there are none of the Pennsylvania lines. All have gone run into holes or sandstones. We are at Broken Arrow at 9.15. A few miles N.E. of Broken Arrow there is a little col mine (coal 3 feet) between two members of Fort Scott li. Over the coal there is a blue clay followed by the upper li. of the Fort Scott. At a place 8 miles east of Broken Arrow we come upon a li. and from proofs, see the lot. Meyer said he saw it connected and Continental. There are two small Archaeoidavians, directly above this li there is a sandstone gone, then blue holes, and at the top beneath the Fort Scott li., another sandstone. McCray tells me that the Cherokee here is about 700 feet thick. Some between the upper and lower Charksee S.E. the formation splits and 400 feet of sands come in and start farther southwest beneath the Cherokee there is still another 100 feet of sandstone. by then according to S. end of Section 23, 187. 16 E. There is a fault ridge line. To the over the strike dips normally to the W, but to the S.E. the strike dips 12 degrees and then flattens out immediately to the north there are several oil wells of that fault ridge and along the strike there are more faults. This faulting was done