Field Notebook: Wyoming
Page 48
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(Continued from 2 page back) page contains a marine vertebra. The nature of the sediments, and particularly the churning condition and the whitest sandstone is evidence for littoral marine deposits. The Dinosaurs are found sometimes as if buried alive but payments of bones, broken sections occur. Entire skeletons or nearly entire ones are rare. Some of the bones show gnawing. The only evidence for fresh water seems to be the absence of marine life but fresh water life is also wanting. On the other hand if we hold these beds to be lake beds we must admit a lake encroaching on the sea followed by another littoral sea deposit. The latter feature is admissible but the former can- not be easily. Returned to Camp by five large crawlers today about 14 miles. I understand that according the following dates are dying in the area of this region for Dinosaurs. Osborne near Nine Mile Crossing.