The Jordan valley and Petra . o The Dead Sea 309 merchants cut the blocks which they carry to Je-rusalem. We detached large specimens with diffi-culty, having no tools. This plateau west of Jebel Usdum is a remnantof the sandstone deposit in the main valley, in thiscase of a peculiar calcareous character. Some ofits upper portion has been removed by erosion, asis seen by a glance at the picture, p. 311 (Moun-tains to the west of the northern end of JebelUsdum). The limestone mountains are seen inthe background of the picture, but the horizontalbelt of a lighter color extending through the whol
The Jordan valley and Petra . o The Dead Sea 309 merchants cut the blocks which they carry to Je-rusalem. We detached large specimens with diffi-culty, having no tools. This plateau west of Jebel Usdum is a remnantof the sandstone deposit in the main valley, in thiscase of a peculiar calcareous character. Some ofits upper portion has been removed by erosion, asis seen by a glance at the picture, p. 311 (Moun-tains to the west of the northern end of JebelUsdum). The limestone mountains are seen inthe background of the picture, but the horizontalbelt of a lighter color extending through the wholewidth of the picture is the lighter-colored sand-stone. It is much eroded at this point by streamscoming from the westward, but is practically con-tinuous along the face of the mountains on thewestern border of the plateau back of Jebel Us-dum, and as far south as our glasses enabled usto see beyond its southern end, along the westernside of the main valley. The plateau itself is un-dergoing- erosion both to the north and so
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