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fine exposure on the south side of the Saline Valley road, which 

 is the highest seen in the canyon that might be referred without 

 doubt to the lake beds. The band exposed is about six feet in 

 thickness, formed of layers of white, very finely granular sedi- 

 ment, which crumbles under strong pressure. It is capped by 



Fig. 3. Lake beds, Waucobi Canyon, Inyo Range. About five miles above 

 Owens Valley. The dark Cambrian rocks of the White Mountain Range north of 

 Soldier Canyon are shown on the left upper half of the plate. 



layers of fine conglomerate formed of small angular fragments 

 of quartzite. 



The greatest thickness of the beds observed at an}- one point 

 was estimated at 150 feet. The finer, light colored calcareous 

 beds vary from sixty to seventy-five feet in thickness. Near the 

 valley the average dip is 3° to 5°. About two miles up it 

 increases to 10° for a short distance and then changes to from 



