Greenland 1915 1 Record of Photographs
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7500 83 Nov -9a-13°(min) 2h 10 8 Nov. Cloudless, brilliant day. Went with Farquhar toward glaciers. We sep- arated on the plain at the head of the bay, he going to the Cluett glacier, while I went up the ridge between the Cluett and Comer glaciers and finally to the top of the mountain separating them. Ridge is covered with, or consists of large and small angular fragments and bits down to gravel size of gneissoid rock with here and there an erratic gran- ite (?) on the surface. The disposition of material is hummocky and mo- alain in character. Apparently, these two glaciers have receded from a more advanced position. In contrast with the Cluett glacier, which is snow covered with here and there a patch of ice, the Comer glacier presents a surface of glare ice robin's-egg blue in color and its front is steep, rounding (convex) and pre- cipitous. Front section shows flexure of ice layers beautifully marked by ground moraine material. Lateral mo- daines come around on north and south side to form, when deposited, ter- minai moraines nearly as high as the front of the glacier