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[[vertical line down left margin of page]] Cut [[underlined]] 221 [[/underlined]] Cut 6 - is about 300 yds. long. At N. end of W. ridge yellow loess rests on chocolate layer. Same on E. side. N. side cut 6. [[image - sketch of cross section of soil strata]] [[image captions]] [[line it interior of hill]]gray patches [[top of hill]] c yellow loess [[bottom of hill]]gray loess a Red about [[line to center of hill]] chocolate layer 1 ft no gray [[/image captions]] At [[overwritten W]] S end on E. side fossilifious gray loess, with tubes & some nodules in exposed about 6 ft & above it is 8 - 10 ft. of yellow loess. Line sharp, oxidized. Saw no fossils in yellow part here. [[line]] N. side a = heavy sandy few pebbles. Reddish above. 7 ft. thick Base = 1403 Top of Red band (chocolate) 1412 [[strikethrough]] Top of gray loess [[/strikethrough]] Top of bank - 1439 (The cut on S. side looks similar) The gray loess runs out - very distinct. The chocolate layer follows surface of drift, yellow loess - 27 ft thick - few round nodules, fossils (few) scattered- chiefly below. About 3 overgrown smaller cuts appear in sec. 33 towards Earling, but they will be better [[end page]] [[start page]] [[vertical line down left margin of page]] studied when new cuts are made. The same will be true of cuts 5 and 6. On the trip, I saw in low ground [[one column-listing genus and species of plants]] [[strikethrough line down length of column]] Bidens chrysanthemoides Salix amygdaloides Scirpus (big wavy like slough grass [[insertion]] atrovirens [[/insertion]] Helianthus grosseserratus Echinochloa crus galli var. Sagittaria latifolia Asclepias incarnata Lobelia siphilitica On return 1380 = base of cut [[underline]] 2 [[/underline]]
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Verified scientific names through Iowa Prairie Plants http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/ppi/genus.php; eol.org; and Appendix 1. Habitat of species found during surveys of 22 prairie remnants in Iowa, USA public.iastate.edu/~bwilsey/Appendices.doc --kbailey