GAP IN ROCK RECORD

[Mile-marker 33]

About 2½ miles below the checking station, we pass on the left the basal

sandstone of the Burro Canyon Formation resting on the Morrison

Formation, as shown in the lower left of figure 24. Just beyond we may

look up the hill to the left and see the 40-foot basal conglomerate of

the Dakota Sandstone resting unconformably on an old erosion surface

atop the Burro Canyon Formation.

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