Page:Field Notes of Junius Henderson, Notebook 1.djvu/4

Aug 1, 1905 August 1, 1905. Special rate, Denver to Florissant, $4.50, pd $9.00 for Ramaley and I.
Hotel for both $4.10
Left Denver at 9:40 a.m. (40 min. late) on Colo. Midland (via C. & S.) for Florissant.
A few miles before reaching Castle Rock Castle Rock, Colorado appeared scrub oaks on dry hills and long leafed pines in valleys. In valleys we saw perfectly stratified unconsolidated horizontal formations, with hills capped by hard horizontal rocks. Further north recognized Niobrara ridge, Dakota ridge and Triassic ridge to the west of R.R. In one place, rocks like Boulder Red Rocks – possibly a short resistant zone in the Jura, apparently the oaks are southern species pushing northward from New Mexico New Mexico, hence occupying dry positions, while the pine Pinuss,