Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General ReaderHobbs, William Herbert
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Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader
Hobbs, William Herbert
Geology; Physical geography
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CHAPTER XXIII
GLACIAL LAKES WHICH MARKED THE DECLINE OF THE LAST ICE AGE
[Illustration:
FIG. 346.—The Illinois River where it passes through the outer moraine
at Peoria, Illinois, showing the flood plain of the ancient stream as
an elevated terrace into which the modern stream has cut its gorge
(after Goldthwait).]
=Interference of glaciers with drainage.=—Every advance and every
retreat of a continental glacier has been marked by a complex series
of episodes in the history of every river whose territory it has
invaded. Whenever the valley was entered from the direction of its
divide, the effect of the advancing ice front has generally been to
swell the waters of the river into floods to which the present streams
bear little resemblance (Fig. 346). Because of the excessive melting,
this has been even more true of the ice retreat, but here _when the ice
front retired up the valley_ toward the divide. A sufficiently striking
example is furnished by the Wabash, Kaskaskia, Illinois, and other
streams to the southward of the divide which surrounds the basin of the
Great Lakes (Fig. 347).
[Illustration:
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