Greenland 1915 1 Record of Photographs
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63 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.