The Quarry Materials of New York--; Granite, Gneiss, Trap and Marble (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... gravel of characteristic kame topography is located north of Middle Grove and east of Kayaderosseras creek. It seems probable that thiis area was originally connected with the massive sand formation on the opposite side of the creek and which is continuous with the kame terrace at higher elevation, as described above. It would seem that over this entire region there lay a mass of stagnant ice and that accumulations of sand and gravel took place both at its western edge (thus forming the kame terrace) and at its southern margin, thus forming a belt of kames, the southernmost extension of which is the group of hills under consideration. Recessional moraine. About 3 miles south' and southeast of Corinth there is a region marked by the topography characteristic of terminal moraines. The surface of the country is made up of hillocks and hollows, or ridges and troughs, without order of arrangement but forming collectively an irregular belt, extending in a general east-west direction and having a length of about 6 miles. The western end of this belt is now separated from the kame terrace formation above described by the valley of Sturdevant creek and by a leveled terrace, thickly strewn with cobbles and boulders, east of the creek. This leveled area is unquestionably a portion of the moraine reduced by stream erosion. In its eastward extension the moraine stretches to the base of the region of highlands of which Mount McGregor is the center. Thus, taken in connection with the kame terrace, the moraine originally formed a continuous belt of elevation across the central depressed area. The general shape of the moraine in its surface distribution and considered as a whole is that of a series of lobes pointing southward, that is, in a...