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crinoidal limestone to the same point, but found no brachiopods in it after leaving the Box Elder Box Elder Creek, Colorado. Saw 2 {taxon|Buteo|buzzards}} and 1 red tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis at junction of N and S Box Elder Box Elder Creek, Colorado.

Red Mt. Red Mt., Colorado Thursday June 13/07 June 13, 1907

Dodds and I started on horseback NW from camp on Ten Mile Creek Tenmile Creek, Colorado, just S of Red Mt. Red Mt., Colorado, to examine the plain to the WNW and SW which appears to be approximately the ancient sea floor, from which most of the sedimentaries have been eroded. On the divide between Ten Mile Tenmile Creek, Colorado and Lone Tree Lone Tree Creek, Colorado creeks NW of Red Mt. Red Mt., Colorado, we measured dip of Fountain conglomerate and found it to be 6 deg. Bearing N. 30˚ E. The conglomerate covers a considerable portion of the plain. ¼ mi. further N dip is 6˚ S. 13˚ W., a valley occupying the syncline here, the sec. fence passing through the valley. It is probably the Red Mt. Red Mt., Colorado Syncline. 300 yds further N of last mentioned outcrop is an outcrop of thin bedded limestone resting on Fountain conglomerate and bearing