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of the layers also them under movement there is also
more sun--exactly, evidently there are strata of the shore.
I have now come about half-mile across
the strike from the last locality to mile post
150. Here there is a small cut through coarse
near the apex of the arch,
sandstones, some of small pebbled conglomerate
and green shales, perhaps one half in stiff blue
shales. The dip is about 75 degrees east
and it is or all the way back to the first
described place. One can see on either side
a little hollowing pits all the way. The com-
monest fossils are the gastropod bivalves. Towards
share two specimens.
either end of the cut there is a golden bed over
the center of the arch.
tectonic
Later I see that this same tectonic feature
is the apex of the arch, and in to be seen as a
monument a little further south up the trail
crosses the fence. Jon sketched two days
later.