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Jan. 29 - 1924, Tuesday, Oracle.
Itzanner in a Ford called for me at
8:30 A.M., and are are off for the day to see
the Cambrian on the north east side of the
Santa Catalina Mts. We go north on the
Florence road to Walnut Tree Ranch,
2 miles north of Tucson, and then east to
Oracle (37 miles N.E. of Tucson) and east of
Oracle pretty 7 miles farther. Here are
out a foot of "Pepin-Dance Cambrian. Have the
Jepun Cambrian is a series of quartzite ming
in thick beds, many of which are clean and
white quartzite. All are more or less de-
cidedly cross bedded. Finally turning the
tip the final 200 - 300 ft. are coarse
and fine grained muddy somewhat gray, dirty
gelb mit n reddish quartzite that have
strangely trilobites. What I saw suggests
rather Daulia but Itzanner calls them
Archaearia.
The whole of this quartzite
series may be 1500 ft thick. It is termi-
nated by fm. 75 to 100 ft of a purple