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region in the Tertiary formations further east.”)). It cleared in afternoon. We found no fossils. Reached Livermore Livermore, Colorado at 5:10 p.m.



Livermore, Colo. Livermore, Colorado, Aug 14, 1908 August 14, 1908

Bright morning but shows tendency to cloud up. Left for Ft. Collins Ft. Collins, Colorado at 7 a.m. Have been staying with C. W. Ramer at the Ramer Hotel Ramer Hotel. Just E of hotel on hill Lyons s.s. beneath the Carboniferous l.s. has dip of crossbedding strongly SE while 100 yds beyond it dips NW, with a covered zone between. At mouth of Owl Canyon Owl Creek Canyon, Colorado drainage the light gray s.s. above the pink is not so whitish and the yellow s.s. not so yellow. The thin l.s. above the yellow still persists. In the Lyons escarpment S of Engleside (sic) where the ridge disappears with change of dip to the S and the strike to the W, the l.s. bands have thinned out greatly and the 75 ft. of Fountain typical congl. And coarse s.s. exposed are sharply divided from the