Show Wyoming Rated Bated as Earliest Ice loe Area ROCK SPRINGS Wyo Au Aug 11 AP In AP-In In the opinion of ot C C. J. J Hares of Denver a noted oil geologist Wyoming was the first section o ot of the country to be covered by the he great Ice sheet which ages ago surged down from the north t H HA He considers that the of ot Wyoming occurred in the mid mid- tertiary period whereas the Ice sheets filled the rest of ot the countrY country coun coun- try in the Pleistocene age The of ot Wyoming was mil mu- lions of years before the present gr great at rivers of ot the Rocky mountain moun moun- twin tain region began to flow Two centuries of tertiary gla gla- elation In Wyoming are known Mr Hares Hared reported to western scientific bodies The Ice mus must have been approximately feet fee thick and aud It it probably moved forward forward for tor- ward at the he rate of three thre feet a year taking more than years to spread over over the central centra and southern parts of the state where It left lett its most apparent traces The tertiary t- t edly occupied a very long time in geologic history It marks marks- a a. profound profound pro pro- found change In the climatic conditions conditions con con- of that period |