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Shaft B Shaft F Shaft E Shaft D L.W. Shaft

Level of irrigation
Began sinking April 20 About 100 feet
KEY PROFILE
0 50 100 150 FEET

Datum Irrigation

Stratified pottery
and gravel

Lumpy loam sandy clay
unstratified

April 21 Washing stone

April 22 No pottery
Base of irrigation

Stratified sands
and clays

Stratified clay,
pure, lumpy
Red pottery of S.K. upper culture

Gravel and sand

Stratified sand

S.K. Shaft B Irrigation

Lumpy loam

Sand

Lumpy loam

Sandy clay with irregular rare
layers of fine cross-bedding

Unstratified sandy clay

May 3 Plant unstratified sandy clay

Laminated pure clay
Sandy irrigation
Base of irrigation
Yellow, gray and red banded
clays and sandy clay
Gravel and sand
Homogeneous
Laminated clays
Compact, finely banded and
laminated gray, white, and
light brown clays
Clays, loess
Loess and clay
Loess

L.W. Shaft

Starts 4½ ft. below S.K. datum

Gray unlaminated
sandy clay

Base of irrigation

Laminated sandy clay

Clay cross-bed
striking away
from mound

Clays and sandy clays
with disturbed
stratification

Fine light yellow clay
Pure
Very compact yellow
gray clays

Kurgan wash

Compact clays, very
compact light gray
clays, irregularly banded

Brownish cross-bedded silica
Banded clays streaked with sand
Interbedded streak of gravel
Sands and clays
St. compact
Sandy clays
and sands
Light buff

S.K. Shaft F

Datum of S.K.

Loose earth with
little pottery

Level of irrigation

Like irrigation

Sandy, unstratified with
some pottery

Banded red and gray clays,
pure
Sandy sands
Banded light yellow
Light sandy, gray
Clays
Banded
Banded clay

Light brown

Compact fine clays with
disturbed banding and
lamination, contains
some pottery

Light yellow
and gray

Kurgan wash, with pottery of S.K. older culture

Unbanded light yellow
Clays, loose
Light yellow and gray banded clays
Loose and Clay clay banded

Clay banded

S.K. Shaft E

Datum of S.K.
(layers of green sands extend up to 1-2 feet
in outer digging)

Level of irrigated plain, east

Culture strata

Base of culture No. 1

Pure banded green
and gray clays

Fine red pottery

Pale crown Stratified sandy
clay and sand

Pure clay not stratified

Rich culture

Base of Culture No. 2

Lightly sandy
Yellowish banded clays
Banded clays
Light reddish, dirty,
compact banded clays
Soft banded clays
Loess
Clay

Traces of
charcoal and
pottery

S.K. Shaft D