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the central ridge and under the alluvium on the southern

slopes of this area. · The basal m.err:ber of the Saugus on the
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exposed cliff face is a bed of coarsely sorted conglomerate of

Plate V Cliff in Bouquet Canyon exposing the Saugus-

Mint Canyon unconformity

a brown color. This overlies directly a bed in the Mint Canyon

which is red, colored partly by wash and partly by its own

inherent coloring matter. The beds which succe~d this are

interbedded sands and gravels all generally colored brown.

The rock fragments making up this formation are generally the

same as those in the Mint Canyon. This would indicate that

the formation renresents a reworking of the ~int Canyon or a

continued supply of detritus from the same sources. Because

the fragments are generally smaller and more decomposed, it is

probably reworked material.