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Saved fossils from mucks & samples [[image - sketch of a gently sloping hill with small dip in middle]] [[image captions]] Drift overwash Drift [line pointing to left side of sketch lower layer on concave side, left]] Blue muck (1) - fossils [[line pointing to upper layer on same concave side]] yellow muck (2) " [[Ditto for fossils]] [[line pointing to inside sketch to word in middle of hill]] a [[line pointing to inside sketch on right side concave area]] gray heavy muck, no fossils [[/image captions]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[image - pencil sketch of rock strata]] [[image captions]] a Brownish loess 3 ft. b about 4 ft { yellow loess (?) - in bands [[strikethorough word I cannot make out]] c 3 ft.{ yellow muck (?) - fossils [[b & c bracketed with line drawn outside image which reads]] These two really seen to be one - they erode south & there are grains of sand in upper parts. d 4 ft { Blue muck - fossils 5 ft 50 yds. }4 ft Drift Seapy place [[/image captions]] [[line]] The dip of center of blue muck (base) is fully 5 ft. below exps, In weathering [[image label]] a [[/image label]] gives a finely granular surface [[image label]] b [[/image label] -a surface ridged by little gullies up & down; [[image label]] c, [[/image label]] -a horizontally more or less stratified & laminated appearance, [[image label]] d [[/image label]] - a fine gray surface.
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(In second page) How to denote letters a,b,c,d to differentiate from rest of text when it's not differentiated in text itself? "c" is darker, and "d" has a dash, but "a" and "b" have no way to denote they are the corresponding labels to sketch.