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0. JV. Gould — Series of Transition Beds 



only locality found where post-Cretaceous erosion has not car- 

 ried away more or less of the series. Even in this locality, 

 near the mouth of the creek the Reeder, Kirby and all but 15 

 feet of the Greenleaf are wanting. At this point may be seen 

 a good example of the unconformity of the Greenleaf and Ter- 



tiary, the latter containing in its lower part small, lenticular 

 masses of the eroded Greenleaf. At Section I nothing but 

 the Spring Creek remains and at Section II the upper part of 

 the Greenleaf is gone. 



As would naturally be expected in a series of deposits vary- 

 ing from deep sea to fresh water, representing several eleva- 

 tions and depressions, and occupying a period of apparently 



