Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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Aug 25, 97 Redman's Atane. Awaking this morning we find another storm with a small amount of rain in progress. However it does not roll or thud nor does the wind blow so hard as at DiasComat. Our barometer is also rising. Towards evening the weather is again fair with the wind almost gone. In the morning I again went west 1/2 miles east to the locality found last night. Collected all the morning but found little to increase the fauna and flora of yesterday. These stone red beds are level at sea level and up about 75 feet. Then there is a gentle slope followed by another rise of about 100 feet of carbonaceous shale. In the latter are concretions or rather lenses of a compact limestone reminding some of the concretions of North Anglerbund. In one I found a yellow little skull. Mr White went east from camp in the morning by a local cemetery and up the ravine of the stream named Sturgis' creek. Here also red beds occur from 20 to about 100 feet above sea. These beds are here followed by two sandstones about 50 feet apart and about 60 feet above the former is where we gathered plants for a carbon- acern shale. Above the latter sandstone and shale continues for about 300 feet. The entire series in this