![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
[[line down through middle of page]] and then yellow loess. Cut 4 A slope, facing E., sec. SW 1/4 SE. 1/4 9-80-21, shows drift at base, then gray streak then yellow loess. A number of little hills W, of this point show yellow loess only. So far in Audubon W. the country in more gently rolling there are no abrupt hills visible & the river bluff slope especially are long & gentle. Cut 5 In SE. SE. of sec. 9-80-36 there is a sand pit half way up a gentle slope. It shows about 7 ft. (all that is exposed) of rusty sand, more or less consolidated, cross-bedded, with larger pebbles & small boulders in lines. Also a few gray hard clay balls with grains of sand in them. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[line down through middle of page]] This is evidently at top of Kansan & corresponds to red layers of sand seen in Shelby. Buchanan gravels! The knoll rises above & is just a part of the general rolling topography. [[underline]] Cut [[/underline]] 6 A cellar excavation at about same level on N. side of road shows that a bed of fine [[insertion] almost [[/insertions]] lone sand was found above, on the slope is yellow loess. Appears as if this fine sand ran into loess above. Could not see it clearly Cut 7 Cut 8 At SW. cor. of sec. 10-80-36 the drift is plain up to near [[striketrough]] upper part [[/strikethrough]] top of low knoll, where a red clayey, sandy layer appears on top (same as sand pit?) and then a [[underline]] very [[/underline]] thin cap of yellow loess. Faces W.