SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COl LECTIONS 



«ITHSOMAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



Fig. 1. VIEW FROM THE NORTHEAST OF THE EAS 



The rounded hills of the foreground are eroded in the Wheeler i 

 Cambrian limestones of the Weeks, Orr, and Notch Peak formations, 

 by 285 feet of Ordovician limestone. 



Fig. 2. PANORAMIC VIEW OF RIDG 



Looking across Wheeler Amphitheater, House Range. The Wheeler shale extends to the base ot the low f 

 e on the slopes of the mountain on the left side of the illustration. 



