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Photos 19 [[checkmark]] & 20 [[checkmark]]
Cut 17 -
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[[image-rock strata at Cut 17]]
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[[underlined]] Loess [[/underlined]]
Kansan
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The bluffs between Akron & Chatsworth are just the ordinary low, rounded Kansan topography hills which extend back eastward as far as I could see from the hill tops.

On the So. Dakota side the hills run close to the river all along, and are similar but perhaps rather more abrupt.

Put up at New Kendall Hotel; [[underlined]] cold! [[/underlined]]

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[[underlined]] Sep. 9 (Friday) [[/underlined]] 1910.

Left Akron at 8.10 AM for Westfield.
Barometer (as set yesterday) reads [[underlined]] 1035 [[/underlined]] at Akron depot this morning.

[[underlined]] Cut 7 [[/underlined]] is a small sand & ground pit - its top 25 ft above bottom on which RR runs.
Its upper part is mixed, very calcareous, some boulders.
It has cross-bedded sand
Evidently Kansan on hill above. Only 4 - 5 feet exposed.
Cut 8- is just in turn of road. It shows 6 - 8 ft. of shelly stuff, but it looks more or less mixed & very calcareous in places.
It is evidently Cretaceous stuff.
The bluffs below the turn in road became higher, rougher & more cat-steppy. There is evidently much more loess piled up on them.

Transcription Notes:
Akron is a city in Plymouth County, Iowa