Hiking south of the present Sullivan's Knoll, in both of the farmlands farthest south of the town of Hurricane and to the Sky Ranch area, where drainage divides may be seen separating the farmlands from western or southern flowing drainages from these farmlands, there were no gravels or conglomertes found indicating westward or southward-flowing streams. This does not mean that there was never a drainage going south along the present Hurricane fault to form a tributary with the Fort Pierce wash, but that I culd not find such a feature.

 I still assume that somewhere or sometime there was a drainage going south along the fault, but that if there were one, it has been obliterated. I did find some gravels at the southern-most farmlands, but the clasts were loose, and could have originated from the Triassic Shinarump- which contains cherts and quartz  cobbles (which could have been re-cycled). But there has been no major stream going south south and west to erode the youngest basalts. The drainage is now reverse to that!

 The large valley north of the  present Sand Hollow dam, off of the Jn outcrops and lake, stilll impresses me that a major stream flowed northward there in Pleistocene times (when there was much more precipitation, in the ice-age), and I will investigate whether it flowed strongly in pre-Sullivan Knoll (volcano) times. If it did, it is now obscured by the basalt flows which may cover all evidence. We will have to search the cliffs of the basalt outcropppings, similar ot what we did on the SW side of the Knoll (to find the Pc conglomerates showing a SW flow in pre-basalt times). Harold

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