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Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 2_052
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Alternative Title
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Field Notes, 1912, Part 2
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Raymond J. Pool
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Description
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Raymond J. Pool Field Notes
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Identifier
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120712
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Transcription
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52 38 usually absolutely barren and is steep as to make very precarious footing. The clay is very hard and takes into small surface scales about 1-3 cm. across. There being somewhat like shale break off under ones weight and introduced considerable danger in climbing about over such places. Here and there one sees a bit of fossil or areas in which there is considerable hard rock. Sometimes this hard rock is left while the clay is taken away from beneath it thus producing a so-called "mushroom" effect. In one place south of Ocella about 3 mi. very large rocks have fallen into the gullies and there are now balanced in all sorts of positions. The most of such slopes are devoid of plant life. But sooner or later vegetation begins to creep up from below and to fall in over the rim so that one frequently finds some of the characteristic species of the surrounding sod land becoming established with the Bad Lands area. The first plants to share in the succession are mat and rosette species such as Arenaria hookeri , Atriplex hastata , Paronychia jamesii , Eriogonum multiceps . One finds there species widely distributed throughout the bad lands on the lower
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Rights
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