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far vena as the mouth of Judith River. In Eastern Kansas the formation is 
of sandstone, blue and variegated pyritiferous clays, gypsum, 
Thi in Kansas, in the north-west at the — of Judith Riy- 
er, as well as ate of the Pyramid Mountain in New Mexico, have been 
ferred to the sapere system of Nebraska, ‘Acaian, Texas; Alabama 
and New Jersey, etc.* ; that time no organic remains had 
w nm B tly I obtained a few fos- 
sils from a stratum of this group in Kansas that would place them in 
Permian below rather than the b ionagier above; hence it was nominally 
referred to st nonconformably upon the Per- 
mian. 
The surface upen which these fob amge strata were deposited was very 
uneven. Frequently we find Permian beds standing up through them in 
ridges which must are re iscntad ek in the ancient waters in which 
the Trias was deposited. Indeed there may be traced from the valley of 
the Kansas to the Arkansas a line of coast, with its littoral configurations, 
reefs and is The U; i ' 
> ‘teavelling the.Santa Fé road from Diamond Spr: Padi spay 
_ fay the Santa Fé road fi iamo G oe ottonw 
: _ The Cellular Limestone, on which the Tins rest; is variable in charac- 
g gypsum. cellular beds often pass diagonally 
through the clarey strata. ae ae 
character of of these beds, and the sun-cracks 0 so abund- 
sot theshow very dearly nthe were formed on a shore of the 
as, from, ‘the: mouth of the Smoky-Hill 
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