. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. 338 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. plains of lakes and rivers situated in a slightly elevated and level rather than mountainous region. About two hundred and fifty feet above the level of the Marsh quarry and on the same side of Oil Creek, but three quarters of a mile distant from the Marsh t[uarry there is a thick stratum of chocolate-colored shale best shown in a small rounded butte, locally known as the " ; This butte stands on the crest of the bluff above Oil Creek and is
. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Natural history. 338 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. plains of lakes and rivers situated in a slightly elevated and level rather than mountainous region. About two hundred and fifty feet above the level of the Marsh quarry and on the same side of Oil Creek, but three quarters of a mile distant from the Marsh t[uarry there is a thick stratum of chocolate-colored shale best shown in a small rounded butte, locally known as the " ; This butte stands on the crest of the bluff above Oil Creek and is shown in the photographs reproduced in Figs. 3 and 4. It is perhaps 30 ft. in height and is composed entirely of a homogeneous stratum of chocolate-. FlG. 4. View from near Cope quarry with the " Nipple " in the middle fore- ground and Cooper Mountain in the distance. Garden Park lies between the crest of the bluft', indicated by the line of trees on either side of the "Nipple,"' and Cooper Mountain in a depression about 600 feet below the " ; colored shale. This rests on a stratum of sandstone and is capped by another layer of sandstone as shown in the photographs. The_base of this conical hill is about an acre in extent and everywhere about its base the remains of dinosaurs crop out in great abundance. Work has already been commenced at this locality and it is proposed to remove with plow and scraper this entire hill and thus lay bear the bone-bear- ing horizon over a large Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carnegie Museum; Carnegie Museum of Natural History. [Pittsburgh] : Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute
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