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Title: The ice age in North America and its bearing upon the antiquity of man. 5th ed. with many new maps and illus., enl. and rewritten to incorporate the facts that bring it up to date, with chapters on Lake Agassiz and the Probable cause of glaciation
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1838-1921 Upham, Warren, 1850-1934
Subjects: Glacial epoch Glaciers
Publisher: Oberlin, Ohio Bibliotheca Sacra Co
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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necessary to go into all the details concerningthe intricate network of kames which mark the lines ofdrainage over New England, when ice-barriers to so greatan extent directed the flow of the glacial torrents. The factsare impressive. Individual kames can be traced for long dis-tances, sometimes a hundred miles or more. The main linesin New England are shown on the accompanying map, be-ginning on the eastern side of Maine.* A few points merit particular attention. The Connecti-cut River Yalley, from its sources to the Massachusetts line,contains the remnants of what seems to be a pretty continu-ous kame, but which has been largely eroded, and in manycases covered up by subsequent deposits of river-silt. Almost ft * See also Kames and Moraines of New Ensjland in Proceedings of theBoston Society of Natural History, vol. xx, p. 211 ef seq. 344 TEE ICE AGE IN XORTE AMERICA. everywhere we find illustrations in the partial burying ofkames by sucli river-silt that the deposition was previous
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Fig. 104.—The kames of Maine and .southeastem New Hampshire. The erteneion fromNew Hampshire can be seen in Fig. 101. (Stone.) to and independent of the present streams. For example,the Merrimack, between Lowell and its mouth, is crossed atright angles by two or three lines of kames, which descendinto the valley from one side and come out upon the hills onthe other. While crossing the valley these are partially, EAMES. 345 and in some places completely, buried beneath the river-siltwhich forms the ))resent flood-plain. In one case, a few-miles below Lowell, the end of this ridge, completely cov-ered with river-silt, may be seen where the river has cutacjoss the old barrier. Professor Charles Hitchcock givesa similar section of a buried kame in Hanover, N. 11,, though ^vo H Hanover Agr. CoU, Delta of ; Terrace of BloodyTjr., j; «Ji o^ ?• ? I A common. farm. Mink Br, 5 Norwich village, 525. g, § f*- p4 ^ lo 543- 6«>. 564- ^^wliT^^^^ 3Soft. _ _-_-- — - .- - __ above sea. Fig.

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