Show final development the te last development of mir consequence ence wai was the formation of a lewster low fresh water ster lake covering come some acres on the north and western border of the plateau b between Green rivers wyoming and utah it was not a deep lake and at times parts of it were nothing more than swamps and puddles its bottom Is now represented by the vast massive 1 shale hale de deposits bosn which hold one 0 of f the worlds world largest potential oil supplies containing billion barrels of petroleum bearing products T that r at is i more oil than has ever been taken from the ground the green river formation also is world famous for its deposits of fossil fish insects and microbes mic robes imagine finding a petrified animal so small a thousand could live on the head of a pin then look for it in cubic miles of solid rock and you decide the needle in the bay firack was never lost such stich was the task of the who bo described the hundreds of insects and one called organisms found in this wis laminated deposit each deposit layer represents six months of time and if you count them you will learn the water was there about years when the shale got its oil Is still being argued bl by the geologists just as the source 0 of uranium cannot be agreed upon these are some of et the things the observing tenderfoot can sea we if he will but study the country as he travels its elevated see scenery hunting illusive uranium the element with seemingly endless foiw pow ers erg the mineral that lives for I 1 i years before it turns to lead the energy man hope to harness to give him a better life before he brings about the dettrie tion of his own civilization as the dinosaurs did when they became too greedy and too specialized it took the dinosaurs loo million million years to commit race suicide man has been attacking he the problem about one million years but man mail Is 6 mammal and mammals have more brains than liars li ards copyright by al look |