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East end of cut (x): [[image: soil profile]] [[image labels]] yellow loess. Fossils Gray loess 4-6 ft. Fossils Talus Road [[/image labels]] The gray shades into the yellow, but change takes place in a few inches. Collected fossils. The yellow loess is sandier. It shows usual loess cleavage. The gray is harder and here does not show cleavage in dry exposed parts. At the east end of (x) there seems to be a little silt on slope between yellow and gray loesses, [[end page]] [[start page]] 103 about 10 ft. above the flat. It is thin, and runs out above (?). [[image: soil profile]] [[image labels]] slope yellow loess silt gray loess [[/image labels]] I went on to cut (c) where I spent much time in picking up shells. They are chiefly from a sandy pocket or layer, show in the figure. [[image: soil profile]] [[image labels]] cut c cut d sand pocket with many shells. silty & loessy, alternating, with shells [[/image labels]] Collected shells from both these spots. They are in the lower bank to left.