Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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Aug. 19 - Sunday Slibestorfeld-Gigarantonsur Had breakfast at 8 volon. At 11.30 White and I go east along the river while Mr. Stosky goes to climb one of neighboring cliffs. Collected Ature plants all the morning while Mr. White went further east to the same 'large fault' dike from our camp. From this same dike I have a sample one from the third or yellow dike, The fossils from this 'middle Slibestorfeld locality' are far better than the 'western Slibestorfeld locality'. Mr. White collected quite a large lot in the morning. In the afternoon Mr. White made a rough section of the strata along the river from our tent to about four miles east. Both of us looked for fossils east of the fault and found some which seem to indicate stone beds. Four bags of fossils, the result of this days work. About the center of the exposure the strata of the western half rapidly turns up and almost stands on end. To the east of this place the strata are nearly horizontal but dipping slightly north. There may be a fault at this place but I decided one could not see it. However there may be a strike fault at the