The Journal of Geology, January-February 1893: A Semi-Quarterly Magazine of Geology and Related SciencesVarious
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The Journal of Geology, January-February 1893: A Semi-Quarterly Magazine of Geology and Related Sciences
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easterly and runs in the vicinity of the line between Randolph and
Wayne counties to near the Ohio line, where it curves to the southeast
entering Ohio near the northwest corner of Preble county. In its
southeasterly course across that county it is phenomenally developed as
has been well shown by the descriptions of Professor Orton. Soon after
entering Montgomery county it curves about to a northeasterly course,
and crossing the great Miami river, a few miles above Dayton, holds
its northeast course across the southeastern part of Miami county,
the northwestern part of Champaign county, and thence on to about the
center of Logan county, where it curves about and runs in a direction a
little east of south to near the southeast corner of Champaign county,
beyond which it ceases to be a specially notable phenomenon.
In the region between the Wabash and Kankakee rivers, in northern
Indiana, there are numerous tracts of irregular form over which surface
boulders in phenomenal abundance are scattered. These are particularly
noticeable in southern Jasper county; in the vicinity of Wolcott, Monon
and Chalmers in White county; near Star City in Pulaski county; in
the southeastern corner of Stark county, and very generally along the
great interlobate moraines, lying parallel with the Eel river, and
some others of the Saginaw glacial lobe. These are so associated with
the inter-tangled morainic phenomena of that region as not to admit of
convenient and brief description in their genetic relationships.
The well-defined tracts have a most significant distribution. The first
part described is associated with the terminal moraine that marked
the margin of a lobe of ice that moved westward along the axis of the
Iroquois basin to a point a few miles beyond the Indiana-Illinois line.
The portion that runs southward to the Wabash is associated with the
moraine that follows the same course, and runs at right angles over the
older moraines of the Lake Michigan lobe. The tract in Tippecanoe and
Montgomery counties, that in south Marion county, and that in Henry and
Randolph counties, in the eastern part of the state, are associated
with the terminal moraines that form a broad loop with the West White
river basin lying in its axis. In western Ohio the belt is intimately
associated with a moraine that bordered the Miami lobe of the ice
sheet, and the south-trending portion in eastern Logan and Champaign
counties lies on the western margin of the Scioto lobe.
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