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Show A Riot of 'Rich Color. To complete the picture imaglnp this a country of many colors. The Algonklan strata here emerging consist con-sist of pale blue limestone below, which weathers bright buff; of dull green shales next above, which weathers weath-ers every shade merging Into deepest brown; or bright red shales .next above, which weathera into the richest rich-est purple: of massive grey limestone thousands of feet of it, next above, streaked horizontally with a broad band' of granitelike dlorlte which is sometimes lead blue sometimes dark gray, sometimes dull dense black. Imagine these colors tossed together, togeth-er, oftenest In regular strata, frequently fre-quently upset, sometimes Inextric-ablymlxed. Inextric-ablymlxed. Imagine the strata from east to west sagging deeply in the middle, so that a horizontal line across, the .park would cut Its colon aaaaasaM sa MasmmHB stance) a Contlaoatal Drrlde of mat- - slva grey limestone" la "fUTmlddla, aad ' 1 moua-lha of alaatlig rede' and grhtaa I I aada?eTa;Wwea-C, I I 'ImsrUe'-'mllk'-blue glaelal lkkea edged with' pink argllllte. Imagine I rounded 'winding valeys' of spruce green. Imagine the greater mountala masses splashed with sulphur' fellow '"' lichen i bearing snow aad 'Ice upon. '" their shoulders. This Is Glacier. |