Transactions . 206 A NEW PHOSPHATE FIELD IN THE UNITED STATES. to the Montpelier deposits is marked, even to the shale or mud partingsseparating the two members of the bed. The heavy black cherty bedlying above the phosphate formation is easily correlated with the samebed at Richs Hot Springs and at Montpelier canon, and the successionof strata from this in ascending order geologically is as perfect as at thelatter place. The working out of the geology in this section and latersouth of it convinces me that the lowest bed at Montpelier in its pres-ent position was really geologically the top on
Transactions . 206 A NEW PHOSPHATE FIELD IN THE UNITED STATES. to the Montpelier deposits is marked, even to the shale or mud partingsseparating the two members of the bed. The heavy black cherty bedlying above the phosphate formation is easily correlated with the samebed at Richs Hot Springs and at Montpelier canon, and the successionof strata from this in ascending order geologically is as perfect as at thelatter place. The working out of the geology in this section and latersouth of it convinces me that the lowest bed at Montpelier in its pres-ent position was really geologically the top one. Analyses areshown on the cross-section. In November, 1904, rinding the Carboniferous to outcrop in twosharp peaks, 1 mile east of Cokeville, Wyo., in Section 4, T. 25 N.,R. 119 W. 6th P. M., on patented land of John W. Stoner, I enteredinto negotiations with him to examine and acquire the lands in thespring when the snow was ofT. The result of the examinationsnowed the quartzite, about 1,000 ft. thick, to fo
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