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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEERITORIES. 



various beds, as they are given iu the reports from which I have taken 

 them. 



The next table will include the coal strata of Bear Eiver, Coalville, 

 and Evanston, to which Dr. Hayden (Eeport U. S. Geol. Surv^ey, 

 1867-'68-'69, p. 192) gave the name of Bear River group. 



Bear River groiip. 



Locality. 



Coalville, Utah Ter- 

 ritory, and SulphiA- 

 Creek. 



Bear River City, 

 Evanston, and 

 Coalville. 



Bear River. 



Coalville and Weber 

 Valley. 



Coalville, Bear River, 

 and Sulphur Creek. 



Coalville and Bear 



River. 

 Coalville 



Description of strata. 



Sandstones and clays 



Evanston coal 



Coalville and Bear 

 River. 



Sulphur Creek, near 

 Bear River and 

 Coalville. 



Upper beds on Sul- 

 phur Creek. 



Coalville and Bear 

 River. 



Coal-beds of C o a 1 - 

 ville, Utah Terri- 

 tory. 



Evanston 



Coalville and Bear 

 River. 



Evanston . 



Alternations of gray 

 and yellowish sand- 

 stones and sandy 

 shales, with black, 

 bluish, and reddish 

 clays and beds of 

 coal. 



Thin seams and lay- 

 ers of dark carbon- 

 aceous shales, 

 with harder thin 

 bands of various 

 colored, argillace- 

 ous, arenaceous, 

 and calc a r e o u s 

 matter, including 

 a very few thin 

 streaks of coal. 



Cretaceous. 



Lower Tertiary, 

 possibly parallel 

 with the older 

 beds of the Great 

 Lignitic Group. 



Tertiary? or Cre- 

 taceous ? 



Upper Cretaceous 

 (No. 5), or Tran- 

 sitional from Cre- 

 taceous to Terti- 

 ary. 



Above Cretaceous, 

 No. 5, Upper Cre- 

 taceous. 



Some fossils Creta- 

 ceous and some 

 Eocene Tertiary. 



Cretaceous 



Cretaceous. 



Fossils Cretaceous 

 Eocene 



Cretaceous . 



Cretaceous 



Lower beds Creta- 

 ceous, upper beds 

 Lower Eocene? 



Lower Eocene or 

 Upper Greta- 

 ceous ? 



Cretaceous .- 



Probably equiva- 

 lent to "Evanston 

 coal. 



Upper Eocene 



Cretaceous 



Authority. 



Engelmannand 

 Meek. 



Hayden 



....do 



....do 



Meek : 



....do 



....do 



Clarence Kinj 

 Meek 



Lesquoreux . 



American Lower 



Eocene. 

 American Upper 



Eocene or Lower 



Miocene. 

 Cretaceous 



Hayden. 



Meek . 

 ....do 



..do 



Reference. 



Bannister... 

 Lesquereus 



...do 



Hayden 



Lesquereux 



....do 



Cope 



Proceedings Acad- 

 emy Nat. Sciences, 

 Philada., April, 

 18(i0, p. 130. 



Report of U. S. 

 Geol. Survey for 

 ]8(;7-'C9-'69, pp. 

 191, 192. 



Report U. S. Geol. 



Survey, 1870, p. 



1G7. 

 Report U. S. Geol. 



Survey, 1870, pp. 



167, 168. 



Report U. S. Geol. 



Survey, 1870, p. 



291. 

 Do., 296-299. 



U. S. Geol. Explora- 

 tion of Fortieth 

 Parallel, vol. iii, 

 1870, pp. 464, 465. 



Do., p. 458. 



Report U. S. Geol. 



Survey, 1871, p. 



376. 

 Report U. S. Geol. 



Survey, 1871, p. 



306. 

 Also, Supplement 



to Fifth Annual 



Report U. S. Geol. 



Survey, 1871. 

 Report 'U. S. Geol. 

 •Survey, 1872, p. 14. 

 Do., p. 437. 

 Do., p. 450. 



Do., p. 454. 



Do., p. 534. 

 Do., p. 339. 



Do., pp. 410-417. 

 Report U. S. Geol. 

 Survey, 1873, p. 27. 

 Do., p. 366. 



Do. 



Do., pp. 439-442. 



