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Unit Book A12

A12v233

Processed on 2024-09-12

2. IDENTIFICATION

Designation

Roster Date Author Record
Description (summary) 2003-08-05 jl This picture shows the successive layers of laminations f413 continuing underneath the brown material f415. This proves that the brown material is later than the laminations. It is unlikely that the brown material is melted soil deposited by the rains over the past winter, since very little water got in this year. It is possible that it is ancient fissure melt, although the process would have needed to have happened regularly to explain both the vertical and horizontal layering of f415. In that vein, it is possible that f415 is the result of multiple events, like the individual laminations themselves, but in this case, we cannot perceive the layers, due to the nature of the accumulation. v233a is a closeup of the layers themselves. [Input: N805JL.j]
Notes on description 2003-08-05 jl After continuing to excavate the layers revealed in this view, we discovered that they only continued for a few centimeters before disappearing again, leaving the relative ages of f413 and f415 in doubt once again. The process of multiple events within f415 is still tempting, since it would adequately explain both the horizontal layering and vertical juxtaposition which we have observed. [Input: N805JL.j]

6. REFERENCE

Analogical Record

Roster Date Author Record
Photo of context (v view)

2003-07-31 jl [Input: A12_VWX.j]
View/drawing of features 2003-07-31 jl f413 (accumulation D), f415 (fill) [Input: N806JL.j]
View/drawing of locus 2003-07-31 jl k30 [Input: N806JL.j]
View/drawing orientation 2003-07-31 jl OV [Input: N806JL.j]
Web view

2003-07-31 jl [Input: A12_VWX.j]