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25 September. In the morning
Ekblaw and I climbed to top
of cliff above igloo at northeast turn
of the bay. Harrovian quartzites
and gneiss
In the afternoon he and I visited the
northern of the two glaciers - this
bears a considerable terminal moraine
of micaceous gneiss (gray) boulders
and sand - water still flowing copiously.
Must be a lot flowing during the
summer.
28 September. Walked with Ekblaw
across the grass slope at the foot
of the northern hills east of the bay. Polyg-
onal solifluction forms were well
developed. Ekblaw says that they
are still better at Vinnemark.
Due to shrinkage and agparated by
freezing. They are like the shrinkage
polygons of a drying mud flat
but are on a much larger scale -
all sizes of polygons - many 5, 6 & 7
sided. Major cracks are one ft.
to two feet or more wide and deep.