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[3820] start
Alpine Saturday April 3 1926
Started out (7 sat girls) at 5.20 A.M. for Marathon
(30 miles E.) and then to a place 3 miles south of Sap-
tank which is 24.6 miles N.E. of Marathon. Arrived
at 10.10 and began collecting in two yrs of the
upturned Lower Saptank. The section as measured
here by Blanchard and Baldwin for the Macland Cr. is
as follows.
Total thickness measured 608 feet but
is considerable thicker
Cemanchean Cretaceous at one. Saptank in an anticline.
The section begins at the base. Great limestone formity
Li. and ss. cmgl. with pieces li. and chat and some sand.
Thickness variable 10'-300'. See April 6 for more detail
This is not a fossil conglomerate.
Hard gray shale 120' with a lense 3