Field Notebook: Texas, Oklahoma 1919
Page 89
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Rex section continued. Black shale 7-8 feet. Light-blue dense fine grained oolitic sandstone, 4 feet. Canda-palli or Taonurus Huet Haell sandy shales completely tunnelled by the worms, 4 feet. Black shale to [illegible], 6 feet. = 43 feet cum. These Haell Shales lie in undulations and they show the effect of squeezing elsewhere. McCoy thinks the design may be 70 feet thick, what we saw here at Rex Bridge is about 43 feet thick. The same Haell shales also show in the cut an- imating the saw bridge seen this afternoon and this morning. Here also they lie in undulations, then the interbedded gns are said to be clays, perhaps oolitic sandstone, To the northeast of Musclogie at Nimeta (a small oil field) came old drilled clams of the Boone protects through the older Pennsylvanians. McCoy says many similar clams are encountered in the tops of oil areas. In many of the Boone clomes this is a far horizon, there is [illegible] [illegible]