SOUTH CAMP ROAD SIDE TRIP
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Just around the curve to the right is a T-intersection from which paved South Camp Road leads south to a growing suburban area; and 2½ miles to the southeast it connects with Monument Road at a point only half a mile north of the East Entrance of the Monument.
Excellent views of the cliffs of dark Proterozoic rocks, the overlying cliffs of the Wingate Sandstone, and the Redlands fault along the northeastern border of the Monument are seen all along South Broadway, but views from South Camp Road and several connecting roads to the southwest are especially good. (See figs. [37] and [38].) As noted earlier, the Redlands fault has a maximum vertical displacement of 700 or 800 feet, but dies out in scissors fashion at each end.
REDLANDS FAULT, looking west from South Camp Road about one mile south of South Broadway. Fault here is nearly vertical and normal, and lies between updragged Wingate Sandstone and dark Proterozoic schist, gneiss, and granite. All or most of the soft Chinle Formation has been squeezed out along the fault. Note smooth erosion surface atop hard, dark rocks surmounted by slope of red Chinle Formation and cliffs of Wingate Sandstone capped by lowermost resistant beds of Kayenta Formation. (Fig. 37)
BRACHIOSAURUS MONUMENT
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As we continue westward on South Broadway, note on the right the brightly colored mudstone and siltstone of the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation strewn with large blocks of rusty-looking sandstone from the Burro Canyon Formation, which caps the high ridge on the right. Just above the deep cut on the right four-tenths of a mile west of the intersection with South Camp Road is a bronze plaque set in a masonry monument, whose lettering is easily readable in [figure 39]. Many years after the excavation in 1900 ([fig. 22]), Elmer Riggs contacted Al Look, of Grand Junction, in regard to the casting and erection of this plaque. Al, Elmer, Ed Faber, and a few other citizens put up the necessary funds and personally erected the plaque and monument. Somehow or other, Brachiosaurus was misspelled Brachyosaurus, as shown in [figure 39], but the intentions were good. Later I will call attention to another similar monument commemorating the finding by Riggs of another dinosaur skeleton.
