CLOSEUP OF UPDRAGGED WINGATE SANDSTONE ALONG REDLANDS FAULT, looking northwest from side road 1½ miles southwest of intersection of South Camp Road and South Broadway. White “pimple” atop cliff near left skyline is Liberty Cap, an erosional remnant of the Wingate Sandstone, reachable via the Liberty Cap Trail ([fig. 3]; and [p. 108]). Chinle Formation here was largely squeezed out along the fault. (Fig. 38)
WATCH TURNS
After a sharp turn to the north and another to the west, South Broadway reaches the top of a hill just above the Elk’s Club and curves gently to the right past sandstone lenses in the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation. A 610-foot-deep well at the house on the left formerly flowed about 1½ gallons a minute from the Entrada and Wingate Sandstones.
BRONZE PLAQUE AND MONUMENT MARKING THE DISCOVERY OF BRACHIOSAURUS ALTITHORAX RIGGS, above roadcut on South Broadway four-tenths of a mile west of South Camp Road. See also [figure 22]. For discrepancy in spelling text. (Fig. 39)
LEFT TURN
WATCH FOR BUFFALO
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Half a mile to the north, South Broadway turns sharply to the left even though another paved road continues northward. Three-fourths of a mile to the west, we turn northwestward parallel to the Monument boundary fence for seven-tenths of a mile before turning north again. The 7-foot chain-link fence just to the left of the road is the northeastern boundary of the Monument and encloses the herd of buffalo. In the late forties or early fifties a young bull challenged the older leader for possession of the herd and gored and pounded the old bull so badly he had to be shot by a ranger. During the furious battle 125 feet of this strong steel fence was utterly demolished. It is reported that sometimes an old bull simply takes one look at the young challenger and retreats without a battle, but other lone or rogue bulls may temporarily or permanently leave the herd for other reasons. Such outcasts are dangerous and unpredictable. One bull kept a ranger “treed” for 4 hours on a steep rock ledge in the broiling sun before moving on to a patch of grass. Four of these critters delayed by one week my walking out a stretch of the Redlands fault on their side of the fence. I decided that a live geologist had advantages over a dead hero.