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Transcription
En Route, Sunday April 19, 1932
The Hupin train got to Williams last night at 10, and remained here until after this morning. Then it started east on the California Limited. It was ready for breakfast by the time we got to Flagstaff. This was 6.45 A.M.
East of Flagstaff we are in the Painted Desert of Arizona area. Adman— the entrance to Petrified Forest is in a sort joshua desert of dark and drifting sand. Last goes much of the morning. Everyone and then we see mesas and suddenly we are rising into canyon rocks.
A little after noon we are still in undulating but more rocky, Cretaceous age, and coral mines.
We are now in New Mexico. Shortly afterwards we begin to see lava flows, and on the north side of the railway is a narrow tongue some hundreds of yards that extends about 10 miles. It finally ends into this dark extension. In places the crust has broken down and moved by the fluid lava beneath. Flow structure is very common. It all looks so recent, and is almost without vegetation that one thinks of it as having formed within the last two or three years. To the east of this place frequent storms we see these lava flows but are look so recent. These are fissure flows.