Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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led in several hundred feet wide, full of more rounded numerous boulders and towards the glacier will patches difice. The front and sides of the glacier in precipitation, a dirty brown knell with hide of impure white giving a distinct but irregular stratification. Numerous fissures are present as in rock masses. The top of this glacier is a land moraine, yellowish brown in color, deeply eroded and almost completely covered with more rounded rocks. As the ice melts the rocks fall down the slopes into the valley and from there they roll off down on the terminal moraine. The moraine adjacent to the glacier is irregular but a more regular and much higher one is present some feet away separated from the inner moraines by a small ravine. Several smaller and one streams emerge from underneath the glacier fairly pure but the large one is quite muddy. Returned to the camp by six A.M. Lay down until 7.30 when breakfast was announced. White not finding me in bed began to look for me, but did not appear until eight o'clock. After breakfast White and I collected fossil plants in the first ravine to the west of the glacier driven or caught by the uninhabitability is now. The plants are by no means good specimens. The section seen here was as follows; thickness ascending order ascending