Field Notebook: Arizona 1925b
Page 62
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
57 Oats, at Inzagatal Peak ad north to North Peak the end of Inzagatal Range. The river is across the valley with the houses of Arlantis Mine in the near foreground. Just defore are gft to the mine we see much Archeogric schist. The climb dies and across an rim ridge run Page Creek. When one gets to within two miles of Pagon me see [illegible] horizontal (Devonian) surface quartz in a fine grained maroon sandstone. From here one picks up a fine creek for 20 miles north to the great escarpment of the High Plateau. Film 1-6 is a view across to the Plateau. Had lunch at the Pagon Lodge. Pagon is granite. 4 1/2 miles out of Pagon on the road to Pine are again quartz of the horizontal maroon sandstone. The road is in the Verde River. The sandstone overlies the benched granite. I photo the contact Film 1-7 and 1-8. The section back Granite, coarse dark red. Red conglomerate of Archeogric quartz (1/4 inch) and layer grey quartz up to 1 inch. Some are small rounded and the large pieces cut out are [illegible] carrying them in no feldspar or in the clay. Red brown-red ded coarse to fine sandstone 40'-50' fine to white sandstone 15' Impure li, (some lithographic), some sandy and a