Field Notebook: Wyoming
Page 19
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Transcription
"The leaves have been drifted to this place since are are in payments. The one perfect leaves are on the surface sandstone. The leaves in the main horizon are for a buff thin lagoon shale and are completly mattered together, but with their imperfect condition and their abundance many, I must value in the way of perfection can be seemed. The lepton bed is the lower four feet in a declining black light material becoming more impure above. The following shale horizon is composed of number strands of bright yellow with brownish streaks passing above into the buff leaf horizon. This is followed by seam of whitish once or two coarse sandstone sometimes with small pellets for 2 to 6 feet thick. The folios and also brownish bituminous layers about six thick with the outer s, capped by more noble course sandstone yellowish in color and then streaked by iron stains."