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The bluff to the SE is about 250 or 300 ft high, alternating red s.s. and congl. Mostly with pinkish color characteristic of the Fountain at Left Hand Left Hand Creek, Colorado , but some pure reds like Lyons at Owl Canyon Owl Creek Canyon, Colorad. In upper part are strong l.s. beds The cliff forms several benches. The upper 50 ft capped by strong l.s. is particularly Lyons like. The l.s. contains crinoid stems and Productus cora Productus cora. After lunch we drove to Owl Canyon Owl Creek Canyon. S of the canyon the 2 upper benches are capped by l.s. and between them and below the lower one are thick bands (12-15 ft.)of thin bedded, pinkish, crossbedded s.s. just like the s.s. overlying the upper s.s. which Darton calls the Ten Sleep. Here, as on Ten Mile Creek Tenmile Creek, Colorado, the Fountain is not nearly as conglomeratic as it is southward. The Carboniferous escarpment, except for the l.s. beds is just as in the Belleview fold above the Fountain. Below the limestones the sandstones and conglomerates are decidedly darker, less of a pink and