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is made through thick beds of red sandstone (Red 

 Beds), the strata of which dip still to the west. 

 Just before Pei-ho-liu is reached, the red sandstone 

 gives place to grey sandstone of a similar nature. 

 Passing through this, the line comes out upon the 

 alluvial plain of T'ai-yiian at Yii-tzu Hsien, and 

 turning northward, terminates twenty miles fur- 

 ther at T'ai-yiian Fu itself. From the train as it 

 makes this last stretch can be seen the Lung-wang 

 Shan, lying to the east. These mountains are 

 composed of a massive outcrop of the Shansi coal- 

 bearing series, and though I have not actually 

 determined such to be the case, are doubtless 

 formed by a large anticlinal fold, as they rise 

 to a greater altitude than the Red Beds at Shou- 

 yang Hsien. Anthracite coal is mined here at an 

 altitude of fully 3,000 feet. This seems to mark 

 the western boundary of the anthracite beds, for 

 in the mountains immediately west of the plain 

 bituminous coal only is mined. 



PART 2 



The Geology of the Country traversed by 

 Anderson and the Author in 1908 : Northern 

 Shensi, the Ordos and Western Shansi 



On my journey with Anderson through North 

 Shensi, along the Ordos border and into Western 

 Shansi, I kept some note of the geological 

 formations. 



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