Field Notebook: Arizona, Texas. 1923, 1924
Page 56
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If it is crowned with a sparse growth of guava brind and a few Oresquite trees, in other places on't met any apparent change the plants are essentially the Corlla cactus. Nearly cryptogen immediately beneath the surface. Caliche is supposed to exist, and certainly from the origin arid it looks this away. When one get tr Dial, 21 miles O.E. the road goes through a series of sort of bad lands topography but with the hills more rounded. These are made up of slightly deformed, rather late Pliocene nearly Pleistocene continental deposits that are distinctly bedded, giving the first impression that the climate was more demid than ours. These are unfortunately relating to my recent continental deposits. After going through these dips for about 8 miles we come out upon a Precambrian granite of any wider extent. This large crystal pink granite, heals up readily into an arkose of low and rounded hills.