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contains very little limestone and none in upper part. Well up west slope of anticlinal valley found massive conglomerate , overlaid by 10 ft. of thin bedded red sandstone, then a bed of conglomerate, then sandstone to top. Probably the highest conglomerate may be considered top of Fountain. No unconformity. On the west slope of the W limb very hard Lyons occurs. Whole thing much metamorphosed, including limestone well down in the Fountain. The limestone associated with the “crinkled” sandstone in the Lykins is just as at Boulder Boulder, Colorado, non-fossiliferous. Has been burned for lime around Carter lake Carter Lake, Colorado. Some distance beneath it on the W limb of the syncline is a hard sandstone just like the Lyons underlaid by typical Lykins micaceous shaley sandstone, some of it very hard and containing flat iron concretions which dissolve out, leaving casts which resemble casts of rather flat pelecypods. In one place