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July 31-99. Monday Camp. XL.
Started out from Treze Ouit Out with Roman
and Cornice. Reviewing my section of yesterday.
On the low slope of the dome beneath
Treze Ouit Int, which is about 100 feet beneath
in the Red Beds
the base of the marine fauna collected a number
of small fossils. This forms the rim of the Amphitheater.
These are in the Upper Taurianic
Sitting on the slope and looking South to Treze
Out Int one can see the strata arching from the north,
and northern
east and west along the eastern sides of this
upper portion of the
arch and the free shore of the Omicron horizon is in
large part replaced by a whitish sandstone
while on the eastern slopes there is no
sandstone in this zone. The distance across from
east to east cannot be more than four miles and
yet there is this marked change.
All that I have seen proves to me that
the Omicron horizon is not of fresh water
origin. It lies conformable upon the marine fauna
and conformable beneath the Dakota, which Knight
(Catenius 2 pag. wrn)