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deep, and the light-yellow upper loess shows well. This upper loess is lighter yellow than that below. It is exposed in this section in about the upper 12 ft. (See sample.) ^[[insertion]] Total about 40 ft. [[/insertion]]

[[image - pen diagram of loess distribution with different cuts in the banks, along a trail which runs E>W and joins the main road shown at the bottom, which runs south to Wasenweiler.]] 

I found no fossils in it. It looks much like the latest Missouri river loess. Opposite cut 3 there is a high loess bluff in which I found no fossils, but it shows a peculiar oblique rusty band:

[[image - pen sketch illustrating loess distribution. Loessy, reddish band, 4ft, passes through two layers of yellow loess.]]

This is the highest loess bluff seen here.

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[[underlined]] Section 4 [[/underlined]] is the finest of the series. The road rises from the base of 3 to the base of 4 ^[[insertion]] (at x) [[/insertion]] about 20 ft.
This section shows two loesses. The lower is darker yellow, with large calcareous nodules, some of them great blocks, - one 6 1/2 ft. long and 5 ft. wide. (See photo)
Fossils are very numerous in this part. In many cases fossils are imbedded in the large nodules. The fossils are so abundant that they fairly whiten the lower bank. (See collections.) The whole bluff here is all of 40 ft. high, and the fossiliferous lower loess makes [[strikethrough]] nearly [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]]about [[/insertion]]half of this.
In addition to the about 40 ft. of the vertical part, the talus measures about 6 feet vertically.
There is a rusty, clayey layer under the fossiliferous part, - as is shown at the side of the road. The fossiliferous