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directly on an uneven eroded surface of rotten, deep red granite, contact showing for100 ft., conglomerate dipping 10˚ bearing about E. The center of the plain for some distance back is covered with a thin remnant of Fountain conglomerate thus showing approximately the ancient sea bottom. Another inlet (sic) of the Fountain, including the upper beds extends far west of Livermore Livermore, Colorado. It is a syncline> At Livermore Livermore, Colorado dip is only about 20 to 40 bearing NE. Camped at Owl canyon Owl Creek Canyon, Colorado at 6 p.m.

Owl Canyon Owl Creek Canyon, Colorado, Friday June 14/07 June 14, 1907

Dodds and I started up canyon on foot in morning and in narrow part, west of bridge, in limestone at top of next to top limestone bench found brachiopods brachiopods of carboniferous type. In a much lower horizon where