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[[underlined]] Cut 9 [[/underlined]] 1st cut E. of Hawarden on C&NW (new cut) This runs to 7 ft deep & shows yellow loess with bluish streaks below. [[underlined]] Cut 10 [[/underlined]] is just east & is long, & over greater part. 10-14 ft. deep. Eastern it runs probably 20 ft. It shows Kansan, much of it with few pebbles in west part, where it looks like a wash. Back nearly 1/2 way from west end there is typical bluish, ferruginous stain, calcareous, pebbly Kansan. It breaks off abruptly. The part above true Kansan shows normal sand in lower part, especially between two humps of Kansan. It is stratified & ferruginous & the tough Kansan-like material (or loess-like) is also more or less stratified towards base. [[end page]] [[start page]] 27 [[underlined]] N. side of cut 10 [[/underlined]] [[image - pencil sketch of cross-section of strata shown in cut]] [[image captions]] (see next page) In this part like loess, but jointed ([[underlined]] see sample [[/underlined]]) { 5 - 6 ft dark Ferruginous band Kansan like, few pebbles Sandy & jointed Lower part divided sand layers (ferruginous) sand gravel Kansan - Nebraskan boulder - small dark green boulder - Nebraskan boulder (see sample) tough Kansan [[/image captions]] S. side cut 10 [[image - pencil sketch of cross-section of strata shown in cut]] [[image captions]] Kansan Rusty sand. Kansan-loess like, tough Kansan Like Kansan [[/image captions]] The Kansan contains sand boulders & towards W. end they strike sand layers. Springs come out "on very tough clay". Kansan also has Nebraskan boulders - twisted. (see sample) One such pocket contained green boulder 2 1/2 in diam.
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It is "Hawarden". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawarden,_Iowa
near the end of the his comments on the s. side of cut 10 I changed "sand boulders" to "some boulders"--thomasc