Field Notebook: Greenland 1987b
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Atore (continued) flora, and is no doubt at or a bit higher than the stage of the irregularities which seem to agree with those from Koral unfortunate. On four inc. of narrow ridges show at various levels - long exposed - craving to basalt caps. Eastward of Patoot they appear as prints to occupy the whole natural from tide to cap. Patoot On facing from Atore towards Patoot the sedi- mentary fort-hills slope with a regular concave curve from the tops of spurs or, etc at Patoot are separated by narrow sharp - V shaped ravines, where the name Patoot, which seems to designate said ravine. These ravines are extremely sharp with slopes of 45o in some and dead abruptly. They affect but little the outline of the massive front of the cap basalt, once the projecting spurs between which they lie are compressed almost entirely of sedimentary generally with at times irregular tim- ses of basalt running out on it. From the foot of these spurs (or rather of the ravines) in the vicinity the land is detrital and slopes to a plain, hardly ravined, but traversed by numerous slight water courses, gradually to the sea level, thus result in a peculiar thorough