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bluish grey & with rusty cracks transversing it. On weathering banks a tendency to form vertical forms & a rudely columnar appearance. Seems often to have been moved subsequent to deposition. Stirred up as it were.

Stones are scattered irregularly through it in all positions though here & there some appearance of horizontal or false-bedded arrangement. The stones, some of which might be called boulders, are of the usual highly metamorphosed rocks, mingled with "quartzite" pebbles, limestone, ironstone, selenite, & fossils ostreas & cephlopods from the Cretaceous Sombre Clays. Also lignite & fragments more closely resembling true coal. Many of the fragments of rocks are well glaciated & the whole has the appearance of a very heavy ice action. It would seem that this boulder clay has been formed by the poaching up of the Sombre Clays pretty much on their original locality & the admixture of its materials with foreign drift material.

Camp E. Fork Milk R. 7.40 AM

B.26.22

'I'.79

Nearly calm

Noon

26.44

96

Wind NW light Clouded

8 PM

26.43

84 S.W.

Thunderstorm near


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