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Title: Annual report. 1st-12th, 1867-1878
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) United States. General Land Office United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ite band 75 I 8. Sandstones .- 25 Laramie?... 9. Massive sandstones with thin bands of shales 600 ( 10. Heavy bands of white and yellowish sand-Wahsatch ? . <( stones with interlaminated red and reddish (_ shales and sandstones ^ 4, Ooo Creen Eiver I ^ Greenish laminated shales and white sand- ( stones and shales. Bed 1 represents only a portion of the Colorado group. The sandstones 2 and 4 form escarpments facing the valey. As No. 4 is traced up the creek, it is seen to thin out as it sinks into the hills beneath the upper beds. Instead of one band of sandstone there are several, and the line between 4 and 5 becomes very indefinite- This we find to be the case very frequently in this region. A band of Sand-stone may be very persistent for a long distance, and then split into several layers and perhaps disappear. The line between the Laramie group and the Fox Hills is especially indistinct. The time at our dis-posal did not permit of careful search for fossils. 17. S. Geological Surrey.
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AREA B—BOOK CLIFFS. 175 Is marked No. 11 are undoubtedly the Green Eiver group of try, as fossils were obtained from the beds farther east. Thea them and the Wahsatch (No. 10 of the section) cannot beawn in the western part of the cliffs, as the variegated charac- 1 fahsatcb group noticed farther east is here almost lost,n 19 the summit is 3,400 feet above the valley. Between and 21, the plateau character is well preserved. The streamslx do not canon very rapidly and the angle of dip in the strata 14°. Grass and sage-brush grow everywhere on the plateau overlooking Grand Eiver Valley are composed of sandstones aiinated greenish shales with spurs projecting southward like faces on the west side, while the eastern slopes are more grassed over. head of the creek, flowing northwest from Station 21, a num- altum springs were found. They are really in the district - Dr. Endlichs party, but as they were visited by us, I insert ; ion : These springs are found in two canons, marked a and7 area

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