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Mature erosion on Kansan drift. Loess thin on weathered drift. Relief 100-150 feet. Four miles southeast of Riverside, three miles west of Iowa River. Highland Township, north line, sec. 4, T. 76 N., R 6 W. Washington County, Iowa. October 2, 1914.
Panorama with images 838 and 839. C.M. & St. P. Railway cut five miles east of Delmar Junction, south side of cut. 1. Buff loess, leached 10+/- feet - 5-15 feet; 2. Red-brown to rusty buff Kansan till leached 6-7 feet - 15-18 feet; 3. Dense, dark, gray, calcareous Kansan till, rusty along joints - 6+/- feet; 4. Aftonian gravel and sand, cross- bedded, partly clean gray, partly orange to brown, cemented with lime at top - 3-10 feet; 5. Dense, slate-colored, jointed, calcareous, pre- Kansan till, upper one-foot lighter gray, much included wood - 8-12 feet; 6. Slate-colored, fine laminated calcareous silt, much disturbed at top by overriding of glacier, much wood included - 10 +/- feet. (Note: The two horizontal benches...
Cut edge of wooded bench at foot of bluff near Iowa Lake and C.& NW. Railway, north of Council Bluffs, Garner Township, Sec. 13. Shows leg bone of bison in shell-bearing gray clay, in hole dug for its removal, 6 feet below top of edge of bench. Bone-bearing and shell bearing clay, cut edge of bench shown in image 957. Iowa-Omaha quadrangle. Pottawattamie County, Iowa. September 8, 1919.
Panorama with image 852. Three miles east of Manning, C.M. & St. P. Railway cut (north side), showing: relations of the loess (1) to the core of the spur of the ridge composed of (2) calcareous till (Kansan?). Warren Township, NW1/4, Sec. 14. Carroll County, Iowa. June 10, 1915.
Panorama with image 855. One and one-half miles east of Manning. North side of C.M. & St. P. Railway cut east of viaduct. 1. Loess - 8- 15 feet; 2. Yellow calcareous till (Kansan) - 0-15 feet; 3. In center of view is stratified sand; 4. Dense gray, non-calcareous gumbo - 0-15 feet. Upper surface of No.4 is very uneven as though eroded or pushed up by overriding of the later ice. Warren Township, W1/2, Sec. 15. Carroll County, Iowa. June 10, 1915.
Panorama with images 838 and 840. C.M. & St. P. Railway cut five miles east of Delmar Junction, south side of cut. 1. Buff loess, leached 10+/- feet - 5-15 feet; 2. Red-brown to rusty buff Kansan till leached 6-7 feet - 15-18 feet; 3. Dense, dark, gray, calcareous Kansan till, rusty along joints - 6+/- feet; 4. Aftonian gravel and sand, cross- bedded, partly clean gray, partly orange to brown, cemented with lime at top - 3-10 feet; 5. Dense, slate-colored, jointed, calcareous, pre- Kansan till, upper one-foot lighter gray, much included wood - 8-12 feet; 6. Slate-colored, fine laminated calcareous silt, much disturbed at top by overriding of glacier, much wood included - 10 +/- feet. (Note: The two horizontal benches...
Panorama with images 844 and 845. C.M. & St. P. Railway cut (north side) 1 1/2 miles west of Manning, showing: 1. Buff loess - 10-15 feet; 2. Buff calcareous till (Kansan?) - 10 feet; 3. Gray pebbly clay, may be lower part of No. 2 - 3 feet; 4. Gray pebble-less laminated clay with black carbonaceous soil band - 0-1 feet; 5. Dense gray, non- calcareous gumbo, containing small pebbles - 12-15 feet; 6. Rusty yellow till (pre-Kansan?) - 15 feet. Warren Township, NW1/4, Sec. 18. Carroll County, Iowa. June 8, 1915.
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