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"Blue sandy crinoid limestone. Are they not so abundant. In places the crinoidal matter is scarce. These are retest inda.
Membranif
Ellenstyn li, with Ophileta and Cryptogrom.
the higher land of
We then drove out of the San Jata valley to a
Richland Springs. Our road soon left the Bend
and we went over the stream to Hall where we saw
did to be here not more than two feet thick.
The last of the stream. Then the road descended into
[There is some doubt of this dense statement!]
the Smithwick Dale and then we came to higher
decided cross-hatched to be
land we were in the sandstone cut about a mile or so
of the so-called Canyon. All the fossils are of chert,
Hercul, tancle, white, gravisf and brown. Where did
these cherts come from? Some are undoubtedly by
the Ellenstyn, and others
for the Bend, but some are for other formations.
The road descended a little more and then we
came in the Comanchian, a good land of many fans,
but of dry climate always. And a rolling country
with a relief of at most of 50 feet. It has been to grow
very since Cretaceous Times. The streams have cut down
windy and then fertile valleys.
through the Penna and Bend into the Ellenstyns.
We left Baird at 8.40 P.M. for the rough Frisco