Field Notebook: Arizona, Texas. 1923, 1924
Page 54
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sent on me. The station is on the side of one of the Amite Hills, but is made of ? Quaternary laramion. As I crawled over the slopes I saw that all the large boulders are surrounded to rounded though they had not gone one than several hundred feet. The smaller pieces are more or less angular. A little below the surface all the agglutinate is cemented together by the faulty caliche, or that this material makes as good on the sides of lava hills as on the mesa. Here the lime must be deposited by the rain crusts and not for subsurface rising crusts. The upper grey-lava is weathering often breaks up into thin sheets up to 3/4 inch thick, and he looks like reddened sedimentary. It heals horizontally across the lava [illegible] straight features.