Field Notebook: Texas, Oklahoma 1919
Page 86
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Section of Quarry at Keough. (See page has a detailed section, marked on photo). ? Greenish light greenish sandstone, overlying pink gillinish and then reddish. By its color try identify it easily This is supposed to be the capping base of the Pennsylvania beneath the Cherokee. Lies upon an unnamed dawn to Grove. Morrow (according to Schneider and Mrs Coy) Green and thick bedded greenish very muddy sandstone, with some shale partings. At the base there is from 2 to 4 feet of li. Thickness about 15 feet. Greenish shaly shale locally that elsewhere changes into thin and thick bedded li., interbedded with greenish shale. About 15 feet. Heavy bedded yellowish gray li. without shale partings. Probably 2 feet thick. Black shale with some thin impure li. This is an irregular zone, and the amount of li. is very variable. This is a fossiliferous zone D. Thickness 10 to 15 feet. Heavy bedded yellowish gray li., with irregular zones of green shale. Stop at the top by the Pliotrites and other fossils occur. Zone E. Thickness 12 feet. Police yellowish earthy li. Thickness variable 10 to 20 feet. Harder shaly zone, 2 to 5 feet. Lithia earthy li., about 3 feet. At base a ginnished layer. (See two pages one to next).