A century of science in America : $b with special reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918
History
A century of science in America : $b with special reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918
American journal of science; Science -- United States -- History
South of the St. Marys river are other and numerous moraines
accompanied by glacial striæ. Their character and courses have not yet
been studied; but their presence carries the mind back to an epoch of
the cold period, when the margin of the icefield was farther south,
and the glacier of the Maumee valley was merged in the general mass.
As the mantle of ice grew shorter—and, in fact, at every stage of its
existence—its margin must have been variously notched and lobed in
conformity with the contour of the country, the higher lands being
first laid bare by the encroaching secular summer. Early in the
history of this encroachment the glacier of the Maumee valley
constituted one of these lobes, and has recorded its form in the two
moraines that I have described.”
Three years after the recognition of moraines in the Maumee valley,
Chamberlin (1874)[63] showed that the seemingly disorganized mounds and
basins and ridges known as the Kettle range of Wisconsin is the terminal
moraine of the Green Bay glacier. At an earlier date (1864) Whittlesey
interpreted the kettles of the Wisconsin moraine as evidence of ice
blocks from a melting glacier and presented a map showing the “southern
limit of boulders and coarse drift.” In 1876 attention was called to the
terminal moraine of New England by G. Frederick Wright, who assigns the
honor of discovery to Clarence King.
[Illustration: G K Gilbert]
With the observations of Gilbert, Chamberlin, and King in mind, the
terminal moraine was traced by various workers across the United States
and into Canada and the extent of glacial cover revealed. Following 1875
the pages of the Journal contain many contributions dealing with the
origin and structure of moraines, eskers, kames, and drumlins. Before
1890 twenty-eight papers on the glacial phenomena of the Erie and Ohio
basin alone had appeared. By 1900 substantial agreement had been reached
regarding the significant features of the drift, the outline history of
the Great Lakes had been written, and the way had been paved for
stratigraphic studies of the Pleistocene, which bulk large in the pages
of the Journal for the last two decades.
_Epochs of Glaciation._
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