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"Seem like old flows and volcanic
meets.
[illegible]
mountain series? It is all a puzzle to
me, for a number of miles to the crest.
It is either an igneous or a metamorphic
or trap rocks. Cretaceous covering faro de
clues. [illegible]
or another great plain volcanos.
At 4:45 P.M., we are at Marfa. Alt.
4692 barnij passed on the summit at
5082 ft. Marfa is a county seat on a
wide plain into which the drainage in the moun-
tain cuts. Pp. 3,170. This is 60 miles east
of Chatham.
We now seem to be passing over Cret.
and Cenozoic rocks upon which have been
deposited volcanic flows. Some must have
been volcanoes, but all are now greatly
eroded that often the lava flows appear
plain enough.
When the sun set the dust to the north
more fine air dusted and coming to the
north of them their track formed over the