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Dip same as above, upper half contains crinoids perhaps may be called a limestone, al moderately fine grained. 25 ft. -Very dark red coarse rotten sandstones and conglomerates with pebbles leaching white 15 ft. -Mostly lighter colored, finer grained, harder and thin bedded sandstones, some zones massive and a little of the coarse dark red 35 ft., forming mild escarpment with the two preceding numbers as the lower part of the slope, on S side of lateral gulch of Owl Canyon Owl Creek Canyon, Colorado. -Same as above, planed edges occupying the gentle E slope of escarpment and intervening valley between it and main escarpment, estimated at 25 ft. -Massive pinkish limestone in bed of creek about 5 ft. -Covered, with intermediate massive conglomerate estimated at 15 ft (in creek bottom (sic) -Soft rotten reddish and whitish streaked, remarkably crossbedded, coarse conglomerate with an intermediate thin bedded red sandstone and some strong evidence (of erosion?)