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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.