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Aug 25, 97 Redman's Atane.
Awaking this morning we find another storm
with a small amount of rain in progress. However it
does not roll or thud nor does the wind blow so
hard as at DiasComat. Our barometer is also rising.
Towards evening the weather is again fair with the wind
almost gone.
In the morning I again went west 1/2 miles east to
the locality found last night. Collected all the morning but found
little to increase the fauna and flora of yesterday. These
stone
red beds are level at sea level and up about 75 feet. Then
there is a gentle slope followed by another rise of about 100
feet of carbonaceous shale. In the latter are concretions
or rather lenses of a compact limestone reminding some
of the concretions of North Anglerbund. In one I found
a yellow little skull.
Mr White went east from camp in the morning by
a local cemetery and up the ravine of the stream
named Sturgis' creek. Here also red beds occur from
20 to about 100 feet above sea. These beds are here followed by
two sandstones about 50 feet apart and about 60 feet above
the former is where we gathered plants for a carbon-
acern shale. Above the latter sandstone and shale
continues for about 300 feet. The entire series in this