Field Notebook: Arizona, Texas. 1923, 1924
Page 57
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Transcription
"Into tumbled, Where does the granite weather out as in or common elsewhere, into great subangular tumbled masses, but because of the large and easily fracturing crystals breaks down into an angular small jotted ashore. Here the ground is light red in color due to the pink feldspars of the granite. Where the granite is actually at the surface it now that it grinds freely and heals up granularly. In places the ground has sand, cream quartz out of pegmatite veins. In other places sand but rarely the granite takes in a dry orecell or- stellation and here heals up more freely. We go further 15 to 20 miles on this granite floor to a considerable ranch house and post office known as Redstone and here go through a fence and south to the north side of the Redstone Dike. The vegetation on this granite floor is markedly different. Wee buccaas and mescal along with red bunches that grows like green, coarse grass, and ragulation grass is in evidence. It's cattle country. Hydran