Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . - a snowslide on the slope between Mount Fieldand ]\Iount Wapta, led the secretary to make a thorough examinationof the section above it in 1910. Every layer of limestone and shalewas examined, until the fossil-bearing band was finallv located. After. Fig. 47.—View looking out of a glacial cirque in the \ an llmiic Range,British Columbia. These abandoned cirques are very common in the CanadianRockies where they are frequently occupied by shallow lakes and snow banks,like those in the immediate foreground. Photograph by
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . - a snowslide on the slope between Mount Fieldand ]\Iount Wapta, led the secretary to make a thorough examinationof the section above it in 1910. Every layer of limestone and shalewas examined, until the fossil-bearing band was finallv located. After. Fig. 47.—View looking out of a glacial cirque in the \ an llmiic Range,British Columbia. These abandoned cirques are very common in the CanadianRockies where they are frequently occupied by shallow lakes and snow banks,like those in the immediate foreground. Photograph by Burling. that, for 30 days the shale was quarried, slid down the moimtain sidein blocks to a trail, whence it was transported to camp on pack horses,where the shale was split, trimmed, and packed and then taken downto the railway station at Field. feet below. A number of sections of the Cambrian rocks were studied andmeasured in the mountains north and south of Laggan, Alberta, andmany beautiful panoramic photographs secured. 44 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS \0L. 59 Most of the field season of 1911 was spent in a continuation ofthe work of 1910 upon the fossil bed between Blount Field and WaptaPeak. Camp was established and a trail built to the fossil quarrv inthe shale 800 feet above. The secretary,
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