Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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again errors come and lead us to the outskirts of the village. At 3.30 P.M. Mr. White and I start last for Peytofire. On going a short distance we get out of the boat to examine what appears to be the same beds only to find them of the crystalline series. I collect recent clayths while Mr. White goes apart about 2 1/2 mile west along the beach and finds the fossil plants which he recently plate on these crystalline rocks has a num- ber of plants in excellent condition a few of which I didn't see before. Splendid butterflies are in flossom and finally I find my first Greenland fern. be return to camp by 6. P.M. The morning while coming from Korok instead that the same beds continue westward to near Peytofire and then appear here and there in the old valleys of the crystalline rocks. From a little to the east of Peytofire to KarsoK the low cliffs along the sea are of the crystalline rocks and here and there are traversed by dikes of basalt. I have a specimen of one of these dikes and a few other samples of the thin reddish crystalline rocks. the coast tonight.