The Pleistocene of North America: and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95°Hay, Oliver Perry
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The Pleistocene of North America: and its vertebrated animals from the states east of the Mississippi River and from the Canadian provinces east of longitude 95°
Hay, Oliver Perry
Paleontology -- North America; Paleontology -- Pleistocene; Vertebrates, Fossil
The whole region is occupied by deposits from the Wisconsin glacial
sheet.
16. _Bowers, Montgomery County._—Professor Donaldson Bodine of Wabash
College, has informed the writer that about 1885 some remains of a
mastodon were unearthed on the farm of Milton N. Waugh, near Bowers. The
exact locality is said to be in section 12, township 20 north, range 3
west. This must be close to a stream named on the map Potato Creek. This
lies north of the Bloomington morainic system or on its northern edge.
The epoch of the animal is not earlier than Wisconsin.
According to Jones and Orahood’s soil survey of this county (37th Ann.
Rep. Geol. Surv. Indiana, p. 149), the glacial drift is almost
everywhere overlain by loess, varying in thickness from a few inches to
nearly 3 feet. This loess was deposited after the ice had retired from
that region.
17. _Indianapolis, Marion County._—In the State Museum at Indianapolis
there is a lower right last molar labeled as having been found in
Indianapolis, at Pennsylvania and Thirtieth streets, by workmen who were
digging a sewer. This was probably in outwash materials brought down by
Fall Creek from the northeast during the withdrawal of the Wisconsin ice
from the Bloomington moraine to the one which passes through Union City
and Muncie, called the Union City moraine.
18. _Anderson, Madison County._—In the Indianapolis Star of July 30,
1911, is an account of the finding of jawbones, with teeth, of a
mastodon. The account was accompanied by reproductions of photographs,
which make the identification certain. The remains were found on the
farm of Louis Webb, but the exact location was not indicated. The animal
certainly lived after the culmination of the Wisconsin stage.
Leverett (Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv. LIII, p. 99) states that in parts of
central Indiana the Wisconsin drift may be relatively thin, as little as
from 15 to 20 feet. In western Tipton and southern Clinton Counties a
buried soil about 20 feet below the surface seems to represent the land
surface previous to the Wisconsin invasion. In southern Madison County a
black mucky soil, carrying pieces of wood large enough to be called
logs, underlies the till at from 15 to 40 feet. Such a soil would be the
product of the interval between the Illinoian glacial stage and the
Wisconsin, probably either Sangamon or Peorian. In such deposits there
might be found vertebrate remains, possibly even of horses.
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