Greenland 2 1916 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Geol.ic. Photographs
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3 20 April. Crag abreast of schooner. I started about 2 1/5 p.m., clear, cloudless sky and moderate westerly breeze with temp. about +12° F for top of crag via biggully east of the igloo. Aneroid reading 2:20 sea level 100' 3 h - east knoll above igloo 825' 725' 3:15 h. - highest point of crag 885' 785' 4 h. - sea level 75 810' Average up and down 797.5' ∴ call altitude 800 feet. Ledges of gray banded gneiss are exposed in upper part of gully up which I went. Much hornblende. Squeezed band of highly serpentinized rock is evidently strongly metamorphosed diorite. Red and pink loose fragments are not quartzite but weathered gneiss. 13 April. 46-1; 8-04 Pudtlak and Kashingwa fixing kamatiks beside main cairn near igloo. ✓ 46-2; 8-04 Pudtlak's igloo with himself and family standing at the entrance. 46-3; 8-02 Kashingwa starting from ship 46-4; 8-02 Kashingwa and Pudtlak start. ing from ship at 12:40 p.m.