Field Notebook: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania
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Tuesday July 14-91 Left Minneapolis train for Bemidji, Minn. 6.30 P.M. Arrived in Bemidji 4 A.M. Wednesday July 15-91 Spent the day in four quarries about one mile to the South East of [illegible] in the upper member of the Salina formation. The country is almost flat in this region and therefore the quarries are below the general surface of the surrounding land. The beds seen cannot exceed ten feet. The upper, most layers are very phaly, somewhat sandy, rapidly decomposing when exposed and of a light yellow color with greenish spots. Fossils rather common but not well preserved, owing to the