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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.

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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
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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.