Identifier: wealthofuintahba00cook (find matches)
Title: Wealth of the Uintah Basin, Utah, and automobile guide ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cook, Charles Booker, 1863- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Denver, Printed by the Carson-Harper co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tzites. A littlefarther to the southward the outcrops of rock are of hard lime-stones which contain the shells of ancient sea-animals. Stillfarther to the southward and forming the shoulder of slopes ofthe mountains are hard sandstones. Then come red beds athousand feet or more which weather into cliffs and slopes facingthe mountains. Beyond these are sandstones again weatheringinto buttes and massive architectural forms in the foothills. Thenthere are sandy shales containing more marine shells then bad-land deposits and sandstones confining bones and skeletons ofhuge Dinosaur then more sandstones and south of these a sea-deposit of soft shale a mile or so in thickness which, weatheringinto plains give us the Ashley valley, then sandstones and shalesagain beyond these beds of alternately soft and hard rocks con-taining asphalt, veins of hydro-carbons and the bones, teeth andskulls of fossil animals different from anything known today orfound in rocks in any other part of the world. 21
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WEALTH OF THE UINTAH BASIN, UTAH In glaiK-iiiji o\(i this scries of rocks yon luivc hicn gazingall tlio time on ncwri and neAver rocks. All arc older than thehills into which the elements have carved them, but newest areyoung compared with those which lie at your feet. Here the rocks slope away towards the southward, leaningup against the mountains. Go to the north side of the mountainsand you will find in places the same beds dipping the other wayor leaning against the north slope—at least you would if morerecent deposits did not cover then. Evidently there has been anupheavel of the rocky^ crust of the earth in a great wave, andtime and the elements have slowly worn oft the crest of therocky billow. But the earth waves, like those of the sea are not perfectlysimple long upheavels, but they are more or less complicated bysmaller waves. If this were not so we would see straight lines ofbuttes, parallel with the mountains, carved from the heavy sand-stone layers, and cliffs of the re

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