Field Notebook: Wyoming 1899
Page 31
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horizontality of the Hurst Lake and its thinnor harder seen in more clear recorded. Note letters to Ross, Lucas & Williams. The railroad comes into Green River from the East along the bottom of a small creek called Muddy Creek. At about 1 mile for the station Green River is seen. The railroad crosses the creek many times before coming into Green River. The country on all sides is a type of bad lands excepting the bottom land of the Creek and the River. Left Green Rvr at 3 P.M. At Rock Spring coal is mining. Considerable town here. A little east where the Green River hills make their appearance. Just a little East of the station this strata dips considerably to the (?N W). There beds underlies the Green River. The dip may be about 100 East of Rock Spring Bad Lands areas come in and continue to near Tipton. About all that one sees in green wood, sage and Lythrum. Time paid Tertiary erosion at 780