Thin platy beds near Elroy, WI

Photographer

Hotchkiss, William Otis, 1878-1954

Date

• ca. 1923

Summary

• Photograph showing a cut in the thin, platy bedded top of the Dresbach or possibly Eau Claire sandstone. These platy beds are colored with reddish and brown tinges and are composed of medium to fine grained sandstone with tiny white specks of decomposed quartz or kaolin.