Greenland 2 1916 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Geol.ic. Photographs
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17. 9x3. Sigdlu and Mene beside Kamatik 17-4 Eqinguah & Sigdlu beside latter's Kamatik just before he started for Cape York. 16 May. 9x17-5, 4/7s- Lower (western) end of big (Cluett) glacier from top of large gneiss erratic about 3/4 mi. distant. Shows ice vertical ice front flanked by the incurving ends of the two main lateral moraines. 17.6 4/6s- Vertical ice front of Cluett glacier from point on outwash about 200 yards away. Shows curved and overturned and folded ice-and-dirt bands at right and nearly straight bands in center of field. In lower one-third of the vertical face a band of dirt varying from 6" to 24" or 30" in thickness is prominent, the wash from it soiling the edges of the adjacent ice layers. Debris consists of abundant fine gray sand and mud containing great numbers of bowlders of gray and red gneiss. In the lower left hand corner of the view are three or four large blocks of ice-and-dirt which fell last winter from the vertical ice front. Stones constantly loosen and roll down from the thick layer of dirt making a great noise in the arctic stillness which is