Field Notebook: Wyoming
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The photo which may help to show this structure. This region is a splendid one for structural geology and splendid models can be made fit for school purposes. Talk to Bullard of this. July 30-99 Tuesday Camp V and VI After breakfast walked over the Jurassic hills near Camp on the Little Medicine at Nine Mile Crossing. The coal hills they I secured came from the top of the marine Jurassic just underneath the limestone horizon. Belemnites came in a little lower and below the main Belemnite horizon I secured the pelycosaurs. The section here is the same succession as at Camp only that the beds occur in low hills which make the upraise more accessible. We broke camp and leave by 9.30 A.M., Arrived at the north-western end of the Frege Out Mt. beside a good spring by 2.30 P.M. 12 miles by road from "Nine Mile crossing" After lunch started up the hill back