Eleventh annual report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories : embracing Idaho and Wyoming : being a report of progress of the exploration for the year 1877 . U. S. G-eologricaZ Szwrey: JPTjCvte, JL. WEST SIDEGREEN RIVER BASIN NORTHERN PORTION. DESCRIPTIVE GEOLOGY—GREEN RIVER BASIN. 529 Creek. Station 14 is located on a butte north, of the angle. The fol-lowing is the section at that point: Section No. Greenish-gray argillaceous sands with bands of yellow sandstones. Near*the top is a band of limestones. At the bottom are drak-gray sand-sto
Eleventh annual report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories : embracing Idaho and Wyoming : being a report of progress of the exploration for the year 1877 . U. S. G-eologricaZ Szwrey: JPTjCvte, JL. WEST SIDEGREEN RIVER BASIN NORTHERN PORTION. DESCRIPTIVE GEOLOGY—GREEN RIVER BASIN. 529 Creek. Station 14 is located on a butte north, of the angle. The fol-lowing is the section at that point: Section No. Greenish-gray argillaceous sands with bands of yellow sandstones. Near*the top is a band of limestones. At the bottom are drak-gray sand-stones, weathering into rounded masses that lie scattered about, re- > 2C0 feet. sembling grindstones 2. Greenish-gray and pink marls ? J 1. Dull brick-red sands and clays with gray sandstones 40 feet. 240 feet. The thickness of these beds was measured with an aneroid upper sandstones I have colored as belonging to the Green EiverGroup, and the lower beds as the upper part of the Wahsatch. Theyweather into characteristic bad-land buttes. To the westward, I think,the Green Eiver beds are in place, and, as seen from the basin rim, pre-sent a bluff edge facing the rim. Between White Clay Creek and theBitterroot there appears to be a dip to the northeast or nor
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