Field Notebook: Arizona 1925b
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as daring about a thickness of 300 feet, it may of course be less in some; other data given it is a guess. Then comes the Coconino sandstone, a yellowish- white fine grained sandstone. It is all exceedingly corn bedded with occasional beds rippled. The lower two- thirds is true corn bedded, the presenting being in various directions. The upper third has large zones of presetting that run more general are southward or southeastward. How thick it is one did not stop to estimate, but at Canyon Creek it is 535 feet thick. It is probably as thick here. We saw our fossils from the can see any indication that such might occur. Yet the road cutting is so new and fresh due that some repair may come to study it. Finally when one gets on the top of the Plateau one are in the lower beds of the Kaibat imprecise direction. This is at about 7000 feet, then one saw a road sign saying the level was 7253 feet, also in the Kaibat with much more above. Therefore the Kaibat is at least 400 feet thick and may be as thick as in the Grand Canyon where it is 400 to 600 feet depending on the amount of erosion. We saw all this on the top of Strawberry Mountain, and collected a lot of fossils are along side of the road about six miles out from Pine in the File of staff road. These come from the lower part.