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Transcription
"and saw the Loron Gindon conglomerate. There
it is like that seen out of Stonehenge Brook, a dark
maroon pebble conglomerate, and piece with desert
drifts pattern. This pattern is in all the pieces and
in of the color of the firm finding matrix. The pebbles
are full sign up to 8 inches or some one foot across.
In other places the conglomerate takes on the
color of the Triassic sandstone a light red and
then the pebbles are in the main of the opolylite.
I first saw the conglomerate where the Carway
road crosses the International Railway. Probably
1000 feet or more down from greatly I came
across a gypsum bed 50 foot or more foot thick.
It was covered by either a red clay or a fine
red conglomerate. I saw it across a small stream
inside the railway and could not get near to it.
As the Loron is conglomeratic in or many
places and is always there, this evidence in-
dicates that the country was mountainous filling
in the valleys below. The climate was arid"