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  • Stratigraphy-Continued.
    • Ordovician system-Continued page
      • Alsate shale 31
        • General features 31
        • Local features 31
          • Marathon anticlinorium 31
          • Dagger Flat anticlinorium 31
          • Relation of Marathon and Dagger Flat areas 31
        • Microscopic character 31
        • Fossils and age 32
        • Stratigraphic relations 32
      • Fort Peña formation 32
        • General features 32
        • Local features 32
          • Marathon anticlinorium 32
          • Dagger Flat anticlinorium 33
          • Jones ranch area 33
        • Microscopic character 33
        • Fossils and age 33
        • Stratigraphic relations 34
      • Woods Hollow shale 34
        • General features 34
        • Local features 34
          • Woods Hollow Mountains 34
          • Simpson Springs and East Bourland Mountains 35
          • Other localities 35
        • Microscopic character 35
        • Fossils and age 35
        • Stratigraphic relations 36
      • Maravillas chert 36
        • General features 36
        • Local features 37
          • Marathon anticlinorium 37
          • Monument Spring and Rock House Gap 38
          • Dagger Flat anticlinorium 39
          • Southeastern exposures 39
        • Microscopic and chemical character 39
        • Fossils and age 41
        • Stratigraphic relations 42
      • General problems of Ordovician stratigraphy 42
        • Correlations and regional relations 42
          • General correlations 42
          • Correlations in trans-Pecos Texas 43
          • Correlations with central Texas 43
          • Correlations with Oklahoma and Arkansas 43
        • Conditions of deposition 43
          • Faunal facies of the Marathon Ordovician 43
          • Source of the sediments 44
          • Depth of water during deposition 45
          • Origin of the chert beds 46
          • Origin of the boulder beds 46
    • Devonian (?) system 47
      • Caballos novaculite 47
        • General features 47
        • Local features 48
          • Northwestern exposures (facies 1) 48
          • Marathon anticlinorium (facies 2) 49
          • Dagger Flat anticlinorium (facies 3 and 4) 50
          • Southeastern exposures 51
        • Microscopic and chemical character 51
          • Novaculite 51
          • Banded chert 51
          • Sandstone 52
        • Fossils and age 52
        • Stratigraphic relations 52
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