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The green-black basalts
are of older age than upper
perhaps?
M.P. Possied
Mr. Possil (spelling?) resi-
dent manager of the Arctic
station here called this evening.
He says that the iron bearing
basalt is beneath the hill basalt
and that it was exposed at Uifak
(Ovifak) only at low tide, its up-
per portion being covered by
the talus slope - Of late years
very few iron bowlders have been
found. For two or three years none.
He has one large + two small
ones -