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Alpine, April 7 - 1926 Wednesday.
Spent the day 3-4 miles W. of Marathon to
Collect prints only in the 'Tesnus', and all that was seen
showed that this Tesnus = Saptaul and in all
probability the whole of the Saptaul.
First collected along the Alpine-Marathon road
about 3 1/2 miles N. of Marathon. The strata are well ex-
posed in the road ditch in a horizontal attitude, and
contain many of green shales with foraminifera.
Then crossed country to the N.P.R.R. cut at mile
post 580. Here the strata are vertical, shales, conglomerate
(above d.b.t.), and lime sandstone.
On the south dump of this 580 mile R.R. cut there is
a limestone head which Blanchard erected
from some fossils. Keyte is said to have many
ones. This loose head came out of the railway cut.
Then went to the hill about 1/2 mile farther S.W.
from mile post 580 to see the unconformity discovered by
me two years ago. After much more space are con-
ccluded that this angular unconformity is due to
upfold and thrusting, producing an apparent uncon-
formity. In the vertical strata beneath the unem-