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Show JUNIOR ENGINEERS STUDHiMATl Students Make Interesting Trip Up Cottonwood Canyon Can-yon Saturday. The university junior engineering students stu-dents registered in courses In geology at the varsity took a trip up Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyon Saturday afternoon to study the peculiar geological formations to bo found there. Leaving Snlt Lake at 7 o'clock Saturday morning the students took the Murray car, and were met at Murray by four large mountain wagons provided to convey them up Little Cottonwood Cot-tonwood canyon. About fifty mado the trip, accompanied by Dr. Fred J. Pack, and spent a pleasant day among the huge granite boulders scattered throughout tho canyon. First, tho students went to tho mouth of Big Cottonwood, where they stopped a few minutes to observe the movements of what Is one of tho finest examples ot block faulting to bo found in the slate. Upon going into Little Cottonwood the class wns shown the great terminal moraine mo-raine deposited at the mouth of the canyon can-yon by tho glacier which filled the can- Vflll hi T.nlf Tlnnnnvlllr t!mo Tlii-n thn i strlatlons on tho rocks are clearly marked showing -the scraping and dragging movements move-ments of the glacier. Tho canyon Itself Is wonderful In that It is almost perfectly straight for a distance dis-tance of twelve miles. It Is almost free from eroslonal features nnd shows plainly the wearing action of the glacier by its steep wnlls nnd Its broad U shape. The class returned to Salt Lake Saturday Satur-day evening, reaching the city about 7 o'clock. |