Field Notebook: Wyoming 1899
Page 44
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Gneissous plain one just sees flight. Out of a course is embedded, the bottom ground in gravel and various sized small SS creations. It might be called Bullet Sandstone. The next strata are the Red beds at Little Medicine River and beyond the Iowa. Further on towards Como- Bluff the latter dips under and reappears near Como Bluff. The Red Beds and Iowa continue to outcrop along the Little Medicine and along Ship Creek where the America Museum has its largest Left Med. Bar at 8.50 in Little Rive. Here at Med. Bar the Carnegie Museum has a large deposit of bitumen with trees. They take up the loams with much clay adhering. The America Mus. also is shipping and is loading 21/2 cars, the result of their summer work in theirs