C. W. Honess — Stmiley Shale of Oklahoma. 69 



Feet. Inches. 



13. Black flint 1 



14. Bluish gra}^ harsh novaculite with red tinge 



weathers lavender and finally to a cream- 

 colored porous chert 11 



15. Resistant blue quartzite, flinty film % inch 



thick ^ 2 



16. Blue-white translucent flint. 6 



17. Concretionary massive schistose cream-colored 



porous chert (nov^aculite) weathers almost 



white 3 



Middle Division Arkansas Novaculite. 



18. Stony black chert (novaculite) 1 



19. Coal-black shale, weathers to a brown clay 



shale, fissile hard, thin bedded 9 



20. Coal-black shale and black flint (novaculite) 



thin bedded and concretionary 15 



21. Thin-bedded (chieflj^ under 1 inch) black flints, 



few shales in bottom ; vein quartz in upper 2 

 feet .. 12 



22. Partially covered coal-black brittle slaty, flint}^ 



shale 16 



23. Coal-black brittle slaty shale and black flint, 



seamed by minute quartz veins intricately 

 intersecting 8 9 



24. Blue-black flints (novaculite) in layers 2 to 6 



inches 9 



25. Hard black flint and shaly seams in beds not 



over 2 inches 4 



26. Hard black novaculite ledge 6 



27. Covered, probably black slaty shale 4 



28. Hard black novaculite ledge 4 



29. Coal-black hard slaty shale 1 4 



30. Black flinty layer 3 



31. Shaly flinty layers, coal-black, up to 1 inch in 



thickness 2 



32. Coal-black slaty shales and thin flinty layers. . 7 



33. Black pyritiferous flint 3 



34. Black slaty shale and a few 1 inch layers of 



black flint ."^ 3 



35. Lenticle of thin-bedded shale pinching out. ... 3 



36. Black even-bedded cherty layer 3 



37. Concretionary black flint undulating surfaces . . 2 3 



38. Thin, slaty black flints undulating 3 



■39. A local intraformational conglomerate — a thor- 

 oughly cemented black flint with pebbles 



clearly outlined on both fresh and weathered 

 specimens thickness 6" occurs at this horizon 

 but was not found at this place. 



Basal Division Arkansas Novaculite. 



