HUMAN RELICS OF LANSING, KANSAS 



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the tributary valley on either side have been abruptly truncated 

 by the waters of the Missouri and present a sharp talus face 

 toward the bottoms. The recency of this face is a declared 

 feature and is significant. Where not occupied by rock, the 

 slope is formed of talus marked by slides and slump terraces so 

 new as still to preserve their distinctive features. A very per- 

 sistent slide terrace runs along the base of the south ridge at 



Fig. 6. — View looking northward across the mouth of the tributary valley, show- 

 ing Concannon's house at the left, and the truncated slope under it, the mouth of the 

 valley just beyond, and in the center the north bluff with its truncated face overlook- 

 ing the Missouri bottoms, on the edge of which the railroad lies. The bluff is about 

 160 feet high. 



about the horizon of the skeleton's burial, ending nearly opposite- 

 it, and about ten rods distant. It is not intended here to 

 suggest an immediate connection between this slide action and 

 the burial of the relics, but merely to show the recency of the 

 Missouri's work across the mouth of the tributary valley and 

 within a few rods of the critical locality. This propinquity is 

 brought into greater emphasis by noting that if a line be drawn 

 from the crest of the talus slope of the north bluff to the crest 



