Field Notebook: Wyoming 1899
Page 23
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Aug. 29-99 Tuesday, Green River. Laddman S. & Co. Castle Rock Mr M.E. of [illegible] City. Nearly all a shale but beyond the top sandy shales predominate. Dornist Heavy fiddle SS. dep yellow shungite depor jettin Thin red deer greenish gay yellow very thin beds, this new top. Light bluish faint or bed when weathering [illegible] blue colors, thick carbon in place. Occasionally dive into a steep shale and an occasional hard bed. above [illegible] 800 feet There is much local dipping in the strata here sometimes as much as 200. The top most strikes