Greenland 2 1916 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Geol.ic. Photographs
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beautifully displayed everywhere of course. Down to fine earth. Fragments are all or mostly subangular to rounded. Sharp angles only on masses recently broken from the ledges. Saw no er- natics of quartzite, all bowlders seemed to be immediately local. May - 9x16-1 4/35 Peter Frenchman mtn bridging dog traces. 9x16-2 4/35 Peter Frenchman as if an rivery from Cape York is - Prob ngr. 5 May 9x16-3 4/35 Brid cliff north side Parkes Snow Bay to show great cill. Cliff is about 900 ft high. Country rock is of such dark red and orange hues that it is somewhat melital that the black sill will be prominent in the photo. Sill has some large bosses I guess in it. What I took for the last fall for the upper arm of an inclined V-shaped sill in the sion is either an older intrusion or (more likely) the hornblende gneiss lying on the feldspathic gneiss. The big diabase (?) sill cuts into the hornblende gneiss at