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<br />,~i'.:{~ clinging on that cliff. <br />There is, essentially, no soil, except above <br />the cliff there is rocky soils and perhaps scr.:e accumula- <br />tions along these cliffs and along these benches th:st <br />someone might classify as soil but it is very thin rind <br />very rocky. <br />And 19-F illustrates a phenomena and this aopears <br />to be an example in the Snyder quarry area of Pinon growing -- <br />this small Pinon tree abou*_ four or five feet tall •7rowing <br />`~~~~~ right on thz edge of the cliff on bedrock, and the only <br />signs of accumulation of materials really are shown in the <br />foreground, undoubtedly the rock is fractured sufficiently <br />so it provides an anchoring for the roots, and the tree <br />is being examined on an extremely hostile site at t:he edge <br />of this cliff out in the open. <br />I might apologize for the lighting on Cheese. It <br />was a very cloudy day -- I will try to point out o»tlines <br />~,,,,~e3 of things that don't show up on these slides. <br />i~.: <br />Q All right -- G? <br />A This is G, This again is in the same area, a <br />small Pinon established tight at the very break of the <br />bedrock limestone with ro accumulation of soil of any kind. <br />Right at the base of the tree it looks as though there are <br />some fractures in the rock -- undoubtedly, there has to be <br />some fracturing to anchor that plant. That plant is <br />approximately two feet tall. <br />Q H? <br />A H -- 19-H illustrates what appeared to me to be <br />1270 <br />