Field Notebook: Arizona 1925b
Page 90
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
85 In the hills near Walnut Springs the Dupai has a thick limestone cap over 300 feet, and is there crowded with the resicular lara. In general the Dupai is bright red here, the deepest red being in the sandy hard shales or rather the muddy red sandstones. Those masses of the greater part of the mass and are intertwined with thin red sandstone patches of occasional one or more feet thick. There are also areas across limestone but according to Bettes who examined them last summer, there are no fossils present, at least no large ones. Accordingly the living frutiforms along Penn. ear near Pine is not developed in the same manner. We then tried to get to Iscamne Creek to see the Dupai, but failed to find the trail after driving at least 10 miles. On this trip we saw much of the Lake Beds that are supposed to have been formed in lakes dammed by the resicular larae that flowed over all of the higher ground and in those cases across a part of the lowest part of the Neele River Valley. Therefore the age of these lake beds are of the time of the larae act later; they must be very young, and yet they are now deeply dissected by erosion.