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Roosevelt Dam
Friday April 3-1925
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Left Elote at 8:15 A.M. and at 10:15 we are
at Brindy Hill in Lake Roosevelt. This hill is
334 feet above the lake, with its strata dipping S.W. 20°, the
strike is N. 35° W.
The highest li. me of the Kinder-
Devonian, with a thickness of at least 100 feet. In the
upper 25 feet occur common Bellerophyllum, Meno-
phyllum, Leptotrypa type, Issingtonia and Spirifer
centromerus. Lee got a few other species
(See p. 27).
Below the Mississippian is a dolomite series
that probably is Upper Devonian. Saw no fossils. Stog-
amus reports Cambrian near the lake level.
The Devonian is at least 225' thick.
Then drove 5 miles to Roosevelt dam, and
duped
finally down the V-shaped gorge of Salt River to the
base of the Apache Cambrian. Here the base is a coarse
grained dark red granite. The upper benethaird our-
surface is level and now dips like the E 20° S.E.
Upon the granite lies 30 feet of canlen engl.
It in a boulder bed of Proterozoic quartz gills, with
an occasional jasper pebble all well rounded.
Some of the boulders are 16 inches across. Coming by
there are our granite pebbles. All those boulders must