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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.