Greenland 1915 1 Record of Photographs
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Cafe Dudley Diggs and surround- ing region. Gentle slopes wh form the mountain mass above the shore cliffs are covered with angular loose fragments of the country rock. Rare- ly does a bit of ledge project thro' this coating - the angular blocks are of all sizes. They speak eloquent- of the effects of the extensive and prac- tically continuous frost work that has broken up the rocks. It seems probable that the prevailing winds across these ridges are Easterly, coming from the ice cap - The sandy or rather gravelly detritus is arranged in long windrows which extend irregularly in a general north-south direction. Apparently the fine material has been blown out from among the coarse blocks and assembled itself in these windrows - The rock is all quartzite? & it dips N.W. or west of north. Old intrusive, and show in the cliff section of the quartzite also gneiss (81.549) no bottom in later one third.