. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. NORTH AMERICA AND THEIR VERTEBRATE FAUNA. 39 Section jj.—In the bluffs on the north side of Beaver Creek, on the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company survey No. 35, about miles south and miles east of Electra, the following section was noted (Udden): 8. Conglomerate of late Tertiary (?) age 3 7. White sandstone, top of Wichita beds in this section 7 6. Sandy gray shale 4 5. Red shale 10 4. Gray shale, with shells of lime and sand 6 3. Dark gray limestone 2. Gray and bluish gray shale -j I. Red shale containing at 18 feet from
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. NORTH AMERICA AND THEIR VERTEBRATE FAUNA. 39 Section jj.—In the bluffs on the north side of Beaver Creek, on the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company survey No. 35, about miles south and miles east of Electra, the following section was noted (Udden): 8. Conglomerate of late Tertiary (?) age 3 7. White sandstone, top of Wichita beds in this section 7 6. Sandy gray shale 4 5. Red shale 10 4. Gray shale, with shells of lime and sand 6 3. Dark gray limestone 2. Gray and bluish gray shale -j I. Red shale containing at 18 feet from the top a 9-foot white sandstone which runs out in the section in a short distance to the east 33 71-5. Fig. 5.—Section in cut along the Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, miles south of Burkburnett, Wichita County: a. red shale; b, cross-bedded sand; c, erosional unconformity; d, alternating layers of silt and sand. (From Udden.) Fig. 6.—Wichita beds exposed in bank of creek in Central Texas Railway Company survey, 9 miles north and 2 miles west of Iowa Park, Wichita County: a, shale; b, conglomerate; c, sandstone. (From Udden.) Fig. 7.—Exposure in right bank of China Creek in Block 314, Waggoner Colony sur\fey, miles north and 4 miles east of Electra, Wichita County. Two sandstone beds, rising from left to righ*-, have been beveled off; some clay was later deposited on the eroded slope; the depression was later filled with sand, which overlaps at the right. (From Udden.) Section 34.—In the north bluff of the Wichita River, near the west line of the L. T. Miller survey, about 11 miles south and i mile east of Electra, is the highest single exposure of the Wichita beds in Wichita County (Udden). It measures feet, and is as below: ^^^^ 17. Gray shale, with thin shells of lime 3 16. Gray limestone of fine te.\ture 15. Bluish-gray shale, weathering yellow 16 14. Sand and shale, purplish in color 3 13. Blotched gray and red shale 2 12. Gray sand, cr
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