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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-tztii 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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