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P.cvi~.c ~_ nugu ;L ~, 1981 <br />~. about °D feet of shales, siltston=_s, and .,an_'stcnes liks ±',;=e <br />-- - - <br />described in tha strati;ra=hic section below, ov~rlia the Sup='.:_`. <br />Sean, follouad by 16 faet of coal, si^ilar to the better Farts .P <br />the Sudduth Seam, This upFer seam is her=_ c_ Lad the "Hoyia ==-am''. <br />Above the Hoyle Seam elastics also like those ceecr:bed ir. the <br />stratigraphic sectlon below, totell~ng many thousand, of feet In <br />thickness occur. in the Coalmont Formation. A very sanll ~.crticr. <br />of those beds occur at the Bourg propert/. <br />Tne sandstones In the Goalmont, wh=ch are nurerous and <br />lent'CUlar, are more resistant to ereslcn than th=_ _os~ cf she <br />Coalmont, ar.d much more resistant than th=_ Fiarre Sh=_la. -he==_ <br />SandstCne beds .5~pport SUb:iUed rages that SErVe tG 7UC 1'_n°`-~~~ <br />structure of the flcCallum-anticlina and cf t'ra s:aa_1 zynclinal <br />wrinkle cn that anticline's eastarn edgy at ~~._ Ec;;rc i,i-.=. ~f <br />course, tha coal seams are quite easily Wezthered and arcd=_d, <br />Thair subcrops can be traced on the topograFhy by shales 'pith <br />•~~ <br /> <br />an unusually dense cover of sagebrush. <br />The Coalmont Formation is reportedly of -alsccene age in <br />its lower part near the Boure property and ~~ =scene age it the <br />u_per part, which does not crop cut rear t;e _curc _rc,r.erty. <br /> <br />pediment Gravels <br />The mesas and butts near the 6oure Pine are c.aPFec pit'.^. <br />20 to 50 feet of pebble and some cobbla gravel. This is a Tennant <br />of a now eroded, oraval-cevared pediment that once blanketed t.`e <br />2rea, "Tha topocraphic Fo_ition cf the red±nents, stand_ng <br />a <br />C-10 <br />