Field Notebook: Wyoming
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Eocene 170- 125- 3500 Eo 200 Plioc 250 Pleis 800 Miocene 100 200 340 Aug. 13 Sunday. Camp. XI. Are Testing, Some har pictures of the towers. Above this horizon can be added 240 ft. of sandy clays like in the 14th. See next page. Titan to thirium Physo here found in 14th. Eocene Miocene 7325- Grany Slope 70 feet 7250 Day terrain Yellowist white silt clays or turrps. Lower half with numerous turtle bones and one large mammal bone. 100 ft. Red granite core 10 ft. Turtle here, Shelly near top Yellowist white silt clays overlying white towers. Jones name 125-feet. 7025 Mangafatid clays, seems predominantly with yellow and some reds. Fossil wood now begins 6975 ft. (am) with rugged beds of fine clay in sandstone. 6893 Bar. 175 feet yellowist white clays soft builders. 6500 Bar. Lowest level of creek 6600 Bar. The Red granite Core, appears to be a perfect anchor forming the clays and we definite it as plain burnt clay with the granitic conglomerate in core bedding.