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N. of main exposure I could see rusty coarse sand & gravel & a few small boulders lying on brown shale, - about a foot or so exposed. [[underlined]] Return to Chatsworth [[/underlined]] afternoon [[underlined]] Cut 19 [[/underlined]] shows 6 ft. of yellow loess, nodules above. It shows lamination below (weathered.) Road cut. [[underlined]] Cut 20 [[/underlined]] - Road cut top of hill & N. slope shows about 5 ft. of yellow loess, nodules above. [[line across page]] [[underlined]] At bluff N [[/underlined]] Bottom reads 1160 (this is not lowest bottom, but terrace). RR reads 11[[overwritten]] 78 [[/overwritten]]80 [[1180]]. [[underlined]] Cut 14 [[/underlined]] shows irregular weathered shale with some Kansan, typical, above it. It seems that the shale eroded irregularly & Kansan filled in. See figure next page, [[end page]] [[start page]] 39 [[underlined]] cut 14 [[/underlined]] [[image - pencil sketch of hill/road cut showing exposures of shale and Kansan]] [[image captions]] about 200 ft long weathered shale Kansan 5 ft [[line pointing to thickness of Kansan on right side of hill]] 2 ft shale 15 ft. [[line to bracket showing total height of hill]] looks about like Kansan - Is over wash! [[/image captions]] The Kansan (oxidized below) here lies on Cretaceous shale. This cut is at end of small spur. [[image - pencil sketch of strata at cut 15]] [[image captions]] cut 15 (S. end) (Main cut) loess sand shale Photos 15 & 16 [[check mark above numbers 15 & 16]] [[/image captions]]