Field Notebook: Wyoming 1899
Page 38
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about 2 miles Section I hill north of Hwy. Catlin. or near Ogus Ranch House. S.R. 1/4 sec. 2 T. 25. R-179. Knight made the height by bar. as 380 feet. in below this: Fresh water shells for 5 feet of top. Other bone here but more often toward the base. Some pure matrix contains 10 feet of top. 2 Dakota 3 feet. No Benton covering More light green shale with hardly a sandstone layer 100 feet In places much darker. Creeds here 55 shells 20 feet. May be high pure for bitumen 55. Fresh water lime Then bedded in atlas 55 bones. My genus. After Knight's quarry. Light green shales with layers filled with small irregular modules. Also bands of impure limestone 1 to 2 feet thick. 7.5 feet Camptomel's layer. Continues on next page.