Greenland 1915 1 Record of Photographs
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73 With January - Visit to glaciers head May 30X = 2000 paces across gap to head - Bar 700 + 1000 paces to foot of glacier + 1100 " to those of nunataks Bar 1100 ft. Higher pointy of nunatak 1275 ft +600 paces from there - (Highest part of ridge shows much ledge in place. See Several loose blocks of quartz- granite form elsewhere (N 3?) are on the ridge showing former covering by the glaciers Hornblende schist-orthic or- diabase dikes directed About N - S crosses middle of ridge. Another was observed far- thier east in ridge. Both seem to have suffered from stress with the gneiss. Almost the whole crest of the ridge is formed of the jointed and frac- tured ledge in place. Specimens 590-594 gneiss; 595-7 dike good black augite seen in snow