| Description | All goes well and he has definite evidence that the Lower Palaeolithic here is later than the Kaiso bone-bed. There is evidence of a short pluvial between the Oldowan and Chellian cultures. If there is a break between beds I and II at Oldoway, it should be about there. He differs from Wayland on many points, especially in thinking that tectonics rather than pluviation are reponsible for the distribution of Pleistocene deposits. He described the through valleys. The reversal looks beautiful on the map but Wayland has never seen the alleged reversal end of the Kafu Valley. Solomon is now working on a line which might provide a continuous climactic record from the lower Pleistocene to the present. The rejuvenation affecting the Kagera system after 100 foot terrace times has not reached the head of the river and the terrace of swamp deposits should provide deposits of various ages, the top being newer. A pluvial period would see a gravel bed and an arid one marked by a rubble. If he finds implements, which Wayland thinks probable, it would fill an important hiatus in the geological record. The other two are going home soon but they are to spend a little time in Kenya. Wayland is glad to have some opposition, but 'he has got a hate on against O'Brien!'. O'Brien is an annoying person, who spends a lot of time trying to teach Solomon his job. He is going to do a year's course in geology, which may knock some scientific method into him, but Solomon is not optimistic. There is no disputing his energy and when he has a plan of work, he gets results. Boswell will get a field report soon. Everyone is fit, but Solomon has had temporary trouble with his insides. |