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Natural Bridge
Saturday, April 4, 1925.
Started at 7:45 A.M. north along the western side of Rose
Creek Lake. It is a beautiful drive in and out the spurs of the
Sierra conglomerate. The Paleogene series goes along the road about
2-3 miles and then comes Archingite granite. Then it is all the
gray Sierra Conglomerate.
North of the lake we are on the west side of the Tonto
River in Tonto (Spanish for forts) Basin. Today the river has
cut deeply through the Sierras and finally we go some miles through
plaza deposits with much dirty gypsum. Some gypsum
occurs in veins, Have pieces of both kinds. As we go on
three
we see elevated terraces. To the west are the high Magatzal
Range of Archingite, and to the east are the low hills
Sierra Ancha having Cambrian in the upper parts.
North of Paeball the terraces are especially once
scarred. The highest one is many hundred feet above the
Tonto river and is now almost dissected. The next lower
terrace dips 200-300 feet and in places is made up of
4 smaller benches. This terrace is now the cliff of two
Tonto River bottom and maybe 75 to 100 feet high. These
terraces go from Paeball to road to Bisola east
Finally we come upon high land of lava in which the
Tonto lies in a gulch. Our main road climbs Tonto
Hill. Here I took 2 pictures looking S.W to Magatzal