Field Notebook: Wyoming
Page 73
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Aug 8-9 Tuesday. Camp IX. Mine left early this morning for home. Our Camp is now adjcent to mine. Climbed a hill this morning locally known as Barns Peak Hill. Alt Triamé. At 9.30 A.M started out with Knight for the head of Grand Canon of the Platte. Here one can see the Cambrian resting unconformably on the granite. Bar. 5675 above Cambria. Basally it consists of a very coarse conglomerate passing upwards into a coarse ss. The pebbles are quartz, Upper surface of granite clean and but thin covered by [illegible] rather to subsequent weathering. Last Canon Bar. 5975. It's in course ss throughout and now the top has large fucoids and what appear to be from Deltithus, then fills yellowist a purists dolomite which basally has Linn. Cat. Fossil. Spirife. All above the granite appears to be Carpathian. Reyning with the White Traces just the Bar. 6100 one descends over a bed of almost foot thick of redist, [illegible] confiscate out the White Trace. Then a very thick yellowist and place purists dolomite.