20 The American Geologist. January, i90o 
Section 5. Tliis section zvas taken along the cast branch of Wild 
Cat ( Cliainpion ) ch^azv beginning one-half 7)iilc south of 
Belvidere and running up the drazv nearly a 
qiiarter of a virile southeast. 
Feet 
12. Kiowa shales well developed to top of hill ±125 
II. Champion shell bed i 
10. Sandy shale, with plants 9 
9. Soft sandstone with bands of shale and carbonaceous 
material 10 
8. Sandy shale with much lignite and plant matter 12 
7. Usually soft, yellow, cross-bedded sandstone with lignite in 
masses of shale. On the west bank near the top of the 
blufif is a hard ledge containing the best dicotyledenous 
leaves found in the Belvidere region 20 
6. Yellow or brown sandy shale with streaks of lignite, much 
cross-bedded, grading into No. 7 6 
5. Soft variegated sandstone, shaly in part, with plants and 
sandstone concretions 10 
4. Yellow sandy shale with bands of black lignite and plant 
remains; distinctly stratified in all parts and often cross- 
bedded 8 
3. Variegated, coarse, false bedded or massive sandstone with 
many pebbles and ferruginous concretions; containing 
several lenticular masses two feet thick of dark blue 
laminated clay, barren of fossils, upper part grades into 
No. 4 20 
2. Yellowish gray shale 3 
I. Red-beds, from the river bed ±50 
Wild Cat or Champion draw at this point is cutting its way 
through this soft sandstone. The section was taken for the 
most part on the west bank. The stream flows to the north 
and the strata tilt at an angle of fifteen to thirty degrees to the 
south; so the total thickness of the Cheyenne would not exceed 
forty feet. It was at this point that professor Prosser made his 
section and assigned tO' the Cheyenne the thickness of forty 
feet.* I quote from professor Prosser's description : "Cheyenne 
sandstone, upper part yellowish to ash color ; coarse grained, 
containing pebbles and very irregularly bedded. Generally 
brownish yellow to gray tints, also white ironstone, etc." 
Professor Prosser's section is vertical while mine attempts 
to give the superposition of the beds as they occur. A very 
*Loc. cii., p. 128. 
