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PLAC ieee art te i Taw Rar ae ia ai ib us ens - NE ‘ , #4 Apes ud be ' u oes 6 feeds oe RR its Pik daha th Mt Se ae Cat Vitae y Vida Ae eee ‘ Sone ‘ CRC ER DCR IE ih trai Cen DYNA ahh! iy ‘ aha On Av dee SAP A ACU) 0) ar jad ARCS eas 4 t i) fits cat a wines ahs) mie vay SA, LOCH Cen RORY Me Si es, ave, PORN A OF GROLOGY A Semi-Quarterly Magazine of Geology and Related Sciences. EDITORS T. C. CHAMBERLIN Rk. D. SALISBURY, CeReAVEAIN EUISiIE. Geographic Geology. Pre-Cambrian Geology. To 1a BID IUNIGSy, Ca IDs WAIL COUT. Petrology. Paleontologic Geology. IR, ANs 185 IPIBINIROSIE, lire We daly Jal(OIIMUES, Economic Geology. Archeologic Geology. GEORGE BAUR, Vertebrate Paleontology. ASSOCIATE EDITORS SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, JOSE EEE CONME Great Britain. University of California. H. ROSENBUSCH, Go. IX, (GAULIBIGIN AC, Germany. Washington. CHARLES BARROIS, H. S. WILLIAMS, france. Vale University. ALBRECHT PE NGK, J. Go BRANNEIRS Austria. Leland Stanford, Jr. University. HANS REUSCH, G. H. WILLIAMS, Norway. Johns Hopkins Untversity. GERARD DE GEER, ll, @ IRNWSSIBICIL, Sweden. University of Michigan. GEORGE M. DAWSON, OF AGE DE RBYe Canada. Brazil. VOLUN gal -tnsonian last S 6 1893 ational Museu: 7 Gr CAG@ . — Che Anthersityp Press of Chicago 1D), c. HEATH & Con Disectors. be ‘i As ee t iM y i , . hoe CONTENTS OF VOLUME / NUMBER I. ON ‘THE PRE-CAMBRIAN ROCKS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Sir Archibald Geikie. P ‘ ARE THERE TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS? W. H. Holmes. GEOLOGY AS A PART OF A COLLEGE CURRICULUM. H.S. Williams. THE NATURE OF THE ENGLACIAL DRIFT OF THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN. T. C. Chamberlin. ; : ‘ STUDIES FOR STUDENTS: Distinct Glacial Epochs and the Criteria for their Recognition. Rollin D. Salisbury. EDITORIALS. REVIEWS: On the Glacial Succession in Europe, James Geikie; by Rollin D. Salisbury. . : - : 0 0 5 . 6 : ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS OF CURRENT LITERATURE: The Sub-Glacial Ori- gin of Certain Eskers; William Morris Davis. Studies in Structural Geology; Bailey Willis. The Catskill Delta in the Post-Glacial Hudson Estuary; William Morris Davis. Geological Survey of Ala- bama— Bulletin 4; C. Willard Hayes. The Correlation of Moraines with Raised Beaches of Lake Erie; Frank Leverett. The Climate of Europe during the Glacial Epoch; Clement Reid. On the Glacial Period and the Earth Movement Hypothesis; James Geikie. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. > NUMBER II. AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION TO CAMBRIAN Time. C.R. Van Hise. THE GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN OHIO. Frank Leverett. TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN OHIO. W. H. Holmes. THE VOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE ANDES. Joseph P. Iddings. ON THE USE OF THE TERMS POIKILITIC AND MICROPOIKILITIC IN PETROG- RAPHY. George H. Williams. . . é 5 5 STUDIES FOR STUDENTS. The Making of the Geological Time-Scale. H. S. Williams. 5 ; : ; ; : : : : EDITORIALS. ili 95-100 101 113 129 147 164 176 180 198 iv : CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1, ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS OF CURRENT LITERATURE. The Age of the Earth; Charles King: The Age of the Earth; Warren Upham. Continental Problems; G. K. Gilbert. Measurement of Geological Time; T. Mellard Reade. Recent Archeological Explorations in the Valley of the Delaware; Chas. C. Abbott. The Drainage of the Jura; August F. Foerste. Deep-Sea Sounding; Capt. A.S. Barker. Obser- vations and Experiments on the Fluctuations of the Level and Rate of Movement of Ground-Water; Franklin H. King. 2 : 3 . 202-208 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. . ‘ 5 ; ; ; : : ; ; so 209 NUMBER III. MALASPINA GLACIER. Israel C. Russell. . : y ; : : 6 219 THE OSAR GRAVELS OF THE Coast OF MAINE. George H. Stone. . 246 THE HoRIZON OF DRUMLIN, OSAR AND KAME FORMATION. T. C. Chamberlin. : : : A CONTACT BETWEEN THE LOWER HURONIAN AND THE UNDERLYING GRANITE IN THE REPUBLIC TROUGH, NEAR REPUBLIC, MICHIGAN. Henry Lloyd Smyth. . 0 . 6 : : é 0 : 268 A PLEISTOCENE MANGANESE DEPOSIT, NEAR GOLCONDA, NEVADA. R. A. 255- F. Penrose, Jr. ; : : B 275 STUDIES FOR STUDENTS: The Elements of the Geological Time-Scale. H. 8S. Williams. : : ; i ; ‘ : 283 EDITORIALS. j 3 5 4 é ea : : : 296 REVIEWS: Monographs of the U.S. Geological Survey, vol. XVII. The Flora of the Dakota Group; Leo Lesquereux, by David White. Cretaceous Fossil-Plants from Minnesota; Leo Lesquereux, by F. H. Knowlton. On the Organization of the Fossil-Plants of the Coal- Measures; W. C. Williamson, by F. H. Knowlton. : : F . 300-303 ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS OF CURRENT LITERATURE; Summary of Current Pre-Cambrian North American Literature; C. R. Van Hise. : 5 304 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 6 : : : . : 5 ‘ 0 ; 315 NUMBER IV ON THE TYPICAL LAURENTIAN AREA OF CANADA. Frank B. Adams. . 325 MELILITE-NEPHELINE-BASALT AND NEPHELINE-BASANITE FROM SOUTHERN BBE XAG Av © SATs 6 ; : 0 . . 6 : : 341 SomME DyNAMIC PHENOMENA SHOWN BY THE BARABOO QUARTZITE RANGES OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN. C.R. Van Hise. ; 6 ; 347 THE CHEMICAL RELATION OF IRON AND MANGANESE IN SEDIMENTARY IROCIKG, IRS ING IR, eterno Ss iro) > f ; : : : : ‘ 356 SoME RIVERS OF CONNECTICUT. Henry B. Kimmel. . j 5 : 371 STUDIES FOR STUDENTS: Geological History of the Laurentian Basin. Israel C. Russell. : ; : 6 6 : : ‘ : ; 394 EDITORIALS. d : : . : . ¢ ; 9 ; a ; 409 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. Vv REviEws: Crystalline Rocks from the Andes; Untersuchungen an altkrys- tallinen Schiefergesteinen aus dem Gebiete der argentinischen Republik ; B. Kiihn. Untersuchung argentinischen Pegmatite, etc.; P. Sabersky. Untersuchungen an argentinischen Graniten, etc.; J. Romberg, by - George H. Williams. The Mineral Industry, its Statistics, Technology and Trade in the United States and other Countries ; Richard P. Roth- well, by R. A. F. Penrose, Jr. : P 6 : : ses . 411-414 ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS OF CURRENT LITERATURE: A New Teeniopteroid Fern and its Allies; David White. Rainfall Types of the United States; Gen. A. W. Greely. Geographic Development of the Eastern Part of the Mississippi Drainage System; Lewis G. Westgate. On a New Order of Gigantic Fossils; Edwin H. Barbour. The Vertical Relief of the Globe; Hugh Robert Mill. : : 5 . 419-422 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 423 NUMBER V. - THE Basic MASSIVE ROCKS OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. W.S. Bayley. 433 NOTES ON THE STATE EXHIBITS IN THE MINES AND MINING BUILDING AT THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHIcAGo, R. A. F. Penrose, Jr. : : 457 THE Las ANIMAS GLACIER. George. H. Stone. 471 STUDIES FOR STUDENTS: Conditions of Sedimentary Deposition; Bailey Willis. F : F : : : 476 EDITORIALS. 521 REVIEWS: Correlation ee Archean and a Algona: C. R. Van Hise, by Rollin D. Salisbury: 525 ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS OF CURRENT LITERATURE: eee of Current Pre-Cambrian North American Literature. 0 : C : 532 NUMBER VI. THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF MOUNTAIN RANGES. Joseph Le Conte. 542 ON THE MIGRATION OF MATERIAL DURING THE METAMORPHISM OF ; Rock Masses. Alfred Harker. 574 THE CORDILLERAN MeEsozoic REVOLUTION. Andrew C. Lawson. 579 SKETCH OF THE PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE BASIC MASSIVE ROCKS OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. W.5S. Bayley. 587 A STUDY IN CONSANGUINITY OF ERUPTIVE Rocks. Orville A. Derby. 597 A DISSECTED VOLCANO OF CRANDALL BASIN, WYOMING. Joseph P Iddings. : : 0 . , 606 NOTES ON THE LEAD AND ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND THE ORIGIN OF THE ORES. Arthur Winslow. 612 EDITORIALS. 620 REVIEWS: Eruptive Rocks of Montana; Waldemar Lindgren. A Sodalite- Syenite and other Rocks from Montana; W. Lindgren. Acmite- Trachyte from the oe Mountains, Meat aniae th E. Wolff, a Ieee P. Iddings. 634 vi CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. NUMBER VII. GEOLOGIC TIME, AS INDICATED BY THE SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF NORTH AMERICA. Charles D. Walcott. ON THE ORIGIN OF THE PENNSYLYANIA ANTHRACITE. John J. Stevenson. THE Basic MaAssiIvE ROCKS OF THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. W. S. Bayley. ° 6 0 6 . ; ; 639 677 688 ON THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE MouNT WASHINGTON Mass _ OF THE TACONIC RANGE— PlatesIII, 1V. Wm. H. Hobbs. EDITORIALS. REVIEWS : Correlation Papers, The “ Newark” System; Israel Cook Russell, by Wm. M. Davis. Text-Book of Comparative Geology; E. Kayser, Ph.D., by Rollin D. Salisbury. lowa Geological Survey, vol.I. First Annual Report; Samuel Calvin, State Geologist, by C. H. Gordon. NUMBER VIII. THE SUPPOSED GLACIATION OF BRAZIL. John C. Branner. CAUSES OF MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION. Helge Backstrom. THE GEOLOGIAL STRUCTURE OF THE HOUSATONIC VALLEY LYING East OF MounT WASHINGTON; Plates V, VI, VI. Wm. H. Hobbs. THE NEWTONVILLE SAND-PLAIN. F. P. Gulliver. THE STRUCTURES, ORIGIN, AND NOMENCLATURE OF THE ACID VOLCANIC ROCKS OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN. F. Bascom. STUDIES FOR STUDENTS: Genetic Relationships Among Igneous Rocks; Joseph P. Iddings. 0 : EDITORIALS 9 ° . REVIEWS: Recent Contributions to the Subject of Dynamometamorphism ; A. Heim. C. Schmidt, L. Milch,M.P. Termier, by George H. Williams. Text-Book of Geology; Sir Archibald Geikie, by Rollin D. Salisbury. Bodengestaltende eee der Eiszeit; Dr. Aug. e Bohm, by Wm. M. Davis. . : : : : ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS OF CURRENT LITERATURE: Conditions of Appa- lachian Faulting; Bailey Willis and C. W. Hayes. Ueber Geroll- Thonschiefer glacialen Ursprungs in Kulm des Frankenwaldes; Ernest Kalkowski. : ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 717 737 - 740-747 O28) 773 780: 803 813 833 845 . 850-859 . 861-862 863 Tels, lOWRKNAL OF GEOLOGY JANUARY- FEBRUARY, 1893. ON “WIGhe, IPIR Is C ANUBIS ICAUN | IOC ICS) Op Wiss [eI I Sel USL Ia Sy, Durine the last twenty years much has been written about the ‘ pre-Cambrian ” rocks of the British Isles. Unfortunately when attention began to be sedulously given to the study of these ancient formations, the problems of metamorphism were still a hundred fold more obscure than they have since become ; the aid of the microscope had not been seriously and system- atically adopted for the investigation of the crystalline schists, and geologists generally were still under the belief that the broad structure of these schists could be treated like those of the sedimentary rocks, and be determined by rapid traverses of the ground. We have now painfully discovered that these older methods of observation were extremely crude, and that the work performed in accordance with them is now of little interest or value save as a historical warning to future generations of geol- ogists. Geological literature has meanwhile been burdened with numerous contributions which remain as a permanent incubus on our library shelves. It may serve a useful purpose at the present time in possibly aiding those who are engaged in the study of the oldest rocks of North America, if I place before them, as briefly as possible, the main facts which in my opinion have now been satisfactorily proved regarding the corresponding rocks of Britain, and if I indicate at the same time some of the more probable inferences in those cases where the facts, at present known, do not warrant a definite conclusion. WOls is IN@>s ie 2 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. It is obvious that in any effort to establish that a group of rocks is older than the very base of the sedimentary fossiliferous formations, we must somewhere find that group emerging from under the bottom of these formations. Until lithological char- acters are ascertained to be so distinctive and constant as to be comparable to fossil evidence for purposes of stratigraphical identification, we should not assume that detached areas of older rocks rising amid Paleozoic, Secondary or Tertiary formations are pre-Cambrian. We should, if possible, begin at the bottom of the Paleozoic systems and work backward, tracing each ~ successive system or group as these rise from under each other, until we arrive at what appears to be the oldest traceable within the region of Yobseryation, It is clear that ini) the \present state of knowledge we have no satisfactory means of identifying such successive systems in widely separated countries. All that can be attempted in the meantime is to ascertain the special types in each region, and to point out their general resemblances or contrasts to those of other regions. It is better to avoid con- fusion by refraining from applying the stratigraphical names adopted for the oldest rocks of one region to those of another geographically remote, though we may hope that eventually: it may be possible to work out the equivalence of these local names. In the British Isles, by much the most important region for the study of the oldest rocks is to be found in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. The very basement strata of the Cam- brian system are there traceable for a distance of more than 100 miles, reposing with a strong unconformability upon all rocks of older date. They consist of dolomitic shales with Olenedlus, resting upon a thick group of quartzites, full of annelid tubes. One of the most remarkable features of these ancient strata is the persistence of their component bands or zones which, though sometimes only a few feet thick, can be traced throughout the whole tract of country just referred to. For the study of the pre-Cambrian rocks this is an important point, for we can be quite certain that even where fossil evidence locally fails, the LE PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS, BRILLTSHT [SLES 3 same basement members of the Cambrian system are persistent and lie directly upon the pre-Cambrian series. Lewisian Gneiss. Ever since the researches of Murchison and Nicol in the north-west of Scotland, it has been known that two distinct systems of rock underlie the quartzites to which I have just alluded. Murchison regarded the upper of these as of Cambrian age, while he assigned the unconformable quartzites and limestones above it to the Lower Silurian period. But the recent discovery of the Olenellus zone intercalated conformably between the quartzites and the overlying limestones may be regarded as proving that all the rocks which underlie the quart- zites and are separated from them by a strong unconformability must be pre-Cambrian. It is thus established beyond any reasonable doubt that two great pre-Cambrian systems of rock exist in the north-west of Scotland. These two systems differ so entirely from each other that their respective areas can be defined with minute accuracy. The uppermost consists chiefly of dull reddish sandstones with con- glomerates, and especially towards their base in Rosshire, some bands of dark grey shale, the whole having a thickness of at least 8,000 or 10,000 feet, though as both the base and the top of the series are marked by strong unconformabilities, the whole original thickness of deposits is nowhere seen. As these rocks are well developed around Loch Torridon, they were named by Nicol the Torridon Sandstone—a designation which has more recently been shortened into ‘Torridonian.’’ The lower system is mainly composed of various foliated rocks which may be embraced under the general term ‘‘gneiss.’’ These masses pre- sent the usual characters of the so-called ‘fundamental complex” ‘‘Urgebirge,” or “‘ Archean Series”’ of other countries. The contrast between the thoroughly crystalline, gnarled, ancient- looking gneisses below, and the overlying, nearly horizontal Torridonian conglomerates, sandstones, and shales, which are largely made out of their debris, is so striking that every ob- server feels persuaded that in any logical system of classification they can not be both placed in the same division of the geolog- 4 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. ical record. They are certainly both pre-Cambrian, but they must belong to widely separated eras, and must have been pro- duced by entirely different processes. If it is proposed to regard the gneisses as ‘“‘ Archean,” we must refuse to include the Torri- donian strata inthe same section of pre- Cambrian time. But so much uncertainty exists as to the application of this term Archzan, examples are so multiplying wherein what was supposed to be the oldest and truly Archean rock is found to be intrusive in rocks that were taken to be of much younger date, and there are such slender grounds for correlating the so-called Archean rocks of one country with those of another, that I prefer for the present, at least, not to use the term at all. Let me very briefly state some of the main characteristics of the two sharply con- trasted rock-systems of the north-west of Scotland. The oldest gneiss of that region was originally called ‘“‘ Lew- isian’’ by Murchison, from its large development in the Island of Lewis, and I think it would be, for the present at least, an advan- tage to retain this geographical appellation. At first this ‘fundamental gneiss” was thought to be a comparatively simple formation, and the general impression probably was that it should be regarded as a metamorphic mass, produced mainly from the alterations of very ancient stratified rocks. Its foliation- planes were believed to be those of original deposit which by terrestrial disturbance had been thrown into numerous plications and corru- gated puckerings. But a detailed study of this primeval rock has revealed in it a far more complicated structure. The sup- posed bedding- planes have been ascertained to have nothing to do with sedimentary stratification, and the gneiss has been resolved into a complex series of eruptive rocks, varying from a highly basic to an acid type, and manifestly belonging to differ- ent times of extrusion. With the exception of one district, to which I shall immediately refer, no part of the whole region yet examined has revealed to the rigid scrutiny of my colleagues of the Geological Survey, any trace of rocks which can be regarded as probably of other than igneous origin. It is true that our researches have been hitherto confined to the mainland \ DETERS OAV aA), Le OOKES,| 3 Lol DSL A SELES: 5 of Scotland, the large area of the Outer Hebrides, which con- sists of similar gneisses, remaining to be explored. It is therefore possible that indisputable evidence of an ancient sedi- mentary series through which the gneiss was originally protruded, may yet be discovered in the unexplored islands. But taking the gneiss as at present known in Sutherland and Rosshire, we find it to be generally coarse in texture, rudely foliated, and passing sometimes into massive types in which foliation is either faintly developed or entirely absent. Much of this gneiss is considerably more basic than the more typical rocks to which the term gneiss was formerly restricted. It consists of plagioclase felspar with pyroxene, hornblende, and magnetite, sometimes with blue opalescent quartz, and sometimes with black mica. These predominant minerals are segregated in different proportions in the different bands, some bands consisting mainly of pyroxene or hornblende, with little or no plagioclase, others chiefly of plagioclase, with small quantities of the ferro -magne- sian minerals and quartz, others of plagioclase and quartz, others of magnetite. This separation of mineral constituents can hardly be attributed to mere mechanical deformation. It rather resem- bles the segregation layers which may be studied in intrusive sills and other deep-seated masses of eruptive material, and which are obviously due to a process of separation that went on while the igneous magma was still ina liquid or viscous condition. At the same time it is manifest that extensive dynamical changes have affected the rocks since the appearance of this original banded structure. There is further evidence that beside the original eruptive masses, which for want of any means of discriminating their rela- tive dates of protrusion must in the meantime be regarded as belonging to one eruptive period, other portions of igneous material have been subsequently and at successive epochs, after the first mechanical deformations, injected into the body of the original gneiss. These consist of dykes of basalt and dolerite, followed by still more basic peridotites and picrites, and lastly by emanations from a distinctly acid magma in the form of granites. 6 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. i: The oldest or doleritic dykes form a wonderful feature in the gneiss, from their abundance, persistence and uniformity of trend in a west-northwest direction. They have no parallel in British Geology until we reach the crowded dykes of older Tertiary time. Throughout this remarkable complex of eruptive material, though its different portions present many features that may be compared with those of intrusive bosses and sheets belonging to later geological periods, there is no trace of any superficial volcanic manifestation. No tuffs or agglomerates or slaggy lavas have been detected, such as might serve to indicate the ejection of volcanic materials to the surface. All the phenomena of the Lewisian gneiss point to the consolidation of successively protruded portions of eruptive material at some depth within the crust. Nevertheless it may yet be possible to show that these deep seated masses have been injected into rocks of older date and of sedimentary origin, and that they have communicated with the surface in true volcanic eruptions. I have already alluded to one limited area where various rocks exist, distinctly different from the prevalent types in the Lewisian gneiss. In the area which is traversed by the long valley of Loch Maree in western Rosshire, there occur clay-slates, fine mica schists, graphitic schists, and saccharoid limestones. These rocks remind us of some of the prevalent members of a series of metamorphosed sediments. The minerals enclosed in the marbles are just such as might be expected in the metamorphic aureole of a granite boss, piercing limestone. But the relations of this group of rocks to the ordinary gneiss of the region are not quite so clear as could be desired, though they seem to point to these rocks being surrounded by and enclosed within the gneiss. The detailed field-work of the officers of the Geological Sur- vey has made known the remarkable amount of mechanical deformation which the various rock-masses composing the Lewisian gneiss have undergone. These rocks have been com- pressed, crushed, and drawn out, until what were originally mas- Vd PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS, BRITISH ISLES, 7 sive crystalline protrusions have been converted into perfect schists. The dykes of dolerite have been transformed into horn- blende-schists and the granitic pegmatites have been reduced to a kind of powder which has been rolled out so as to simulate the flow-structure of a lava. There is evidence that most, if not all, of this dynamical change was effected long before the deposition of the Torridonian series, for the latter rests in nearly horizontal sheets, with a strong unconformability upon the crushed and sheared gneiss. Torridon Sandstone. This group of rocks covers only a limited area in the north-west of Scotland, but it must once have spread over a far more extensive region. It reaches a thickness, as I have said, of 8,000 or 10,000 feet, and consists almost wholly of dull, purplish-red sandstones, often pebbly, and bands of con- glomerate. Dark grey shales, already alluded to as occurring towards the base of the series, are repeated also in the highest visible portion, and have yielded tracks of what seem to have been annelids and casts of nail-like bodies which may have been organic. I have said that the Torridonian deposits which were classed by Murchison as Cambrian, have been proved by the dis- covery of the Olenellus zone in an unconformable position above them, to be of pre-Cambrian age. Except along the line of dis- turbance to which I shall immediately refer, these strata are quite unaltered. Indeed, in general aspect they look as young as the old red sandstones with which Hugh Miller identified them. It is at first hard to believe that such flat undisturbed sandstones are of higher antiquity than the very oldest Paleozoic strata which are so generally plicated and cleaved. The interval of time between the deposition of the Torridon Sandstone and of the overlying Cambrian formations must have been of enormous duration, for the unconformability is so vio- lent that the lowest Cambrian strata, not only transgressively overspread all the Torridonian horizons, but even lie here and there directly on the old gneiss, the whole of the intervening thick mass of sandstone having been there removed by previous denuda- tion. At Durness, in the north of Sutherland, about 2000 feet of 8 LTE JOURNAL OR NGBOLOGNG Cambrian (possibly in part Lower Silurian) strata can be traced, the lower portion consisting of quartzites, the central and upper parts of various limestones, sometimes abundantly fossiliferous. Nowhere else in the north of Scotland can so thick a mass of early Paleozoic rocks be seen. Elsewhere the limestones have been in large measure replaced by a complex group of schistose rocks which rest upon the Cambrian strata, and like them dip, generally at gentle angles, towards the east. It was the opinion of Murchison, and was commonly admitted by geologists, that these overlying schists represented a thick group of sediments, which, originally deposited continuously after the limestones, had been subsequently altered into their present condition by regional metamorphism. They were vari- ously named the “ Eastern schists,” the ‘“‘ younger gneiss,” the ‘‘gneissose and quartzose flagstones.” Nicol, who at first shared the general opinion regarding them, afterwards main- tained that they did not belong to a later formation than the limestones, but were really only the old gneiss, brought up again from beneath by enormous dislocations and over-thrusts. We now know from the labors of Professor Lapworth and the officers of the Geological Survey, that Murchison and Nicol had each seized on an essential part of the problem, but that both of them had missed the true solution. Murchison was in error in regarding his younger gneiss as a continuous sequence of altered sedimentary rocks conformably resting on the Cambrian (or to use his terminology, Lower-Silurian) formations. But he sagaciously observed the coincidence of dip and _ strike between the schists and sedimentary rocks below them and inferred that this coincidence, traceable for many leagues, proved that the metamorphism which had given these schists their structure must have taken place after the deposition of the Durness limestones. Nicol, on the other hand, with great insight recognized that there was no continuous sequence above those limestones, but that masses of the old gneiss had been thrust over them by gigantic faults. But he failed to see that no mere faults would account for the coincidence between the structural TELS PREM A VR KA IN ACOCLGS VERA LESTEL TSIGE,S: 9 lines just referred to in the Cambrian strata, and in the overlying schists, and that the general tectonic structures and lithological characters of the eastern schists differed in many respects from _ those of the Lewisian gneiss. The problems in tectonic geology presented by the compli- cated structures of the northwest of Scotland have been ably worked out by the officers of the Geological Survey, to whose report in the Quarterly Fournal of the Geological Society for 1888, I would refer for full details. It has been shown that, besides stupendous dislocations and horizontal displace- ments, the rocks have been cut into innumerable slices which have been driven over each other from the eastward, while at the same time there has been such a general shearing of the whole region that for many hundreds of square miles the original rock-structures have been entirely effaced, and have been replaced by new divisional planes, which, when they approach the underlying Cambrian strata, are roughly parallel with the bedding planes of these strata. In this region, therefore, we have striking proofs of a stupen- dous post-Cambrian regional metamorphism. But there is still much uncertainty regarding the geological age of the rocks which have been affected by it. There can be no doubt that large masses of the old gneiss, torn up from below, have been thrust bodily westward for many miles, and are now seen with their dykes and pegmatites resting on the Durness limestones and quartzites. It is equally certain that in other districts huge slices of the Torridon sandstones have been similarly treated. But where all trace of original structure has disappeared, we have, as yet, no means of definitely determining from what for- mation the present eastern schists have been produced. The ordinary gneissose and quartzose flagstones do not appear to me to be such rocks as could ever be manufactured by any chemi- cal or mechanical process out of the average type of Lewisian gneiss. I have long held the belief that they were originally sediments, but whether they represent altered Torridon Sand- stone, or some clastic formations which may have followed the 10 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. Durness limestones, but which have been everywhere and entirely metamorphosed, remains for future discovery. For my present purpose, it is sufficient to observe that, in the meantime, as we can not be sure of the origin of most of the rocks, which, ~ between the West Coast and the line of the Great Glen, have been subjected to a gigantic post-Cambrian regional metamor- phism, it seems safest to exclude them from an enumeration of the pre-Cambrian rocks of Britain. Dalradian. East of the line of Great Glen, which cuts the Scottish Highlands in two, another group of crystalline schistose rocks is largely developed. It consists mainly of what were undoubtedly originally sedimentary deposits, though they are now found in the form of quartzites, phyllites, graphitic schists, mica-schists, marbles, and various other foliated masses. With them are associated numerous eruptive’ rocks, both acid and basic, sometimes still massive and easily recognizable as intru- sive, sometimes more or less distinctly foliated and passing into different gneisses, hornblende-schists, chloritic-schists, etc. Though it is not always possible in such a series of metamorphic rocks to be certain of any real chronological order of succession, those of the Highland tracts have now been mapped in detail over so wide an area, that we are probably justified in believing that a definite sequence can be established among them. These masses must be many thousand feet thick. Their succession and association of materials are so unlike those of any of the known older Paleozoic rocks of Britain, that they can hardly be the metamorphosed equivalents of any strata which can be recognized in an unaltered condition in these islands. Some traces of annelid casts have been found in the quartzites, but otherwise the whole series has remained entirely barren of organic remains. What then is the age of this important series? I must con- fess that in the meantime I can give no satisfactory answer to this question. I have proposed, for the sake of distinction and convenient reference, to call these rocks ‘‘ Dalradian.” Murchi- son supposed them to be a continuation of his Durness quartzites, THE PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS, BRITISH ISLES, II limestones, and ‘‘ younger gneiss.” His belief may still prove to be in some measure well founded. But at present we have no means of deciding whether the quartzites and limestones of the Central Highlands are the more altered equivalents of the undoubtedly Cambrian strata of the north-west.- It is possible that in the vast mass of metamorphosed rocks constituting the wide stretch of country from the northern headlands of Aber- deen to the south-western promontories of Argyllshire, there may be portions of the old Lewisian gneiss, tracts of highly altered Torridon sandstone, belts of true counterparts of the Cambrian quartzites and limestones of Durness, and, what should not be forgotten, considerable portions of some later sedimentary series which may have followed these limestones, but which, by the great dislocations already referred to, have disappeared from the north-west of Scotland. We are gradually learning more of these rocks, as the detailed mapping of them by the Geological Survey advances, and when the ground on either side of the Great Glen is surveyed, it may be possible to speak with more certainty regarding their true geological relations. A glance at a geological map of the British Isles will show that the metamorphic rocks of the south-western Highlands of Scotland are prolonged into the north of Ireland, where they spread over a region many hundred square miles in extent. They retain there the same general character and present the same difficult problems as to their true stratigraphical relations. Quite recently, however, a new light seems to have arisen upon these Irish rocks. My colleagues on the Irish Branch of the Geological Survey have detected several detached areas of coarse gneisses, which in many respects resemble parts of the Lewisian gneiss of north-west Scotland. In some cases these areas lie amidst or close to ‘ Dalradian’”’ rocks, but with that obstinacy, which so tries the patience of the field-geologist, they have persistently refused to disclose their true original position with regard to these. Some fault, thrust-plane, tract of boulder- clay or stretch of bog is sure to intervene along the very junc- tion-line where the desired sections might have been looked for. 12 THE JOURNAL OF (GHOLOGY- There can be little doubt that a strong unconformability exists between them. A close examination of the ridge of old gneiss in Tyrone and Fermanagh showed me that though the actual basement-beds of this Dalradian series could not be seen resting on the coarse gneiss, the lithological character, and tectonic arrangement of this series are only explicable on the supposition of a complete discordance between it and the gneiss. As these two groups of rock have never been found in close proximity in Scotland, and as the determination of the true age of the Dalradian series is a question of such great stratigraphical importance in the general mapping of the United Kingdom, I requested Mr. A. McHenry, of the Geological Survey of Ireland, to continue the tracing of the mutual boundaries of the old gneiss of the Ox Mountains and the Dalradian series in County Mayo. He informs me that he has found in that series a con- glomerate full of blocks of the old gneiss, and resting in one locality apparently unconformably upon it. If this observation is confirmed it will finally set at rest the relative position of the coarse massive gneiss and some portion, at least, of the Dalradian series. Of course there is no absolute proof that the coarse gneisses of Ireland are really the equivalents of the Lewisian masses which they so closely resemble. But there is a strong presumption in favor of their identity. In England and Wales many detached areas of rock have been claimed as pre-Cambrian, and successive formations have been classified among them. I have already dealt in part with this question, and without attempting here to review the volum- inous literature of the subject, I will content myself with stating briefly what seems to me to have been established on good evidence. There can not, I think, be now any doubt that small tracts of gneiss, quite comparable in lithological character to portions of the Lewisian rocks of the north-west of Scotland, rise to the surface in a few places in England and Wales. In the heart of Anglesey, for example, a tract of such rocks presents some striking external or scenic resemblance to the characteristic THE PREACAMBIIAN ROCKS, BRITISH [SEBS 13 types of ground where the oldest gneiss forms the surface in Scotland and the west of Ireland. In the Malvern Hills another small knob of somewhat similar material is obviously far more ancient than the Cambrian rocks of that locality. There may possibly be still some further exposures of similar rocks in the south of England, as for instance in southern Cornwall. In Anglesey a series of schists, quartzites and limestones has been included by Mr. J. F. Blake with the coarse gneiss above referred to, and a thick higher group of slates in what he terms the “Monian” system. These schists, quartzites and limestones present a close resemblance to the Dalradian series of Scotland and Ireland, and the quartzites, like those of the Highlands, contain worm-burrows. The coarse gneiss, as I have said, may be compared in general character with parts of the Lewisian rocks, so that we seem to have here, as in Ireland, two groups of schistose rocks, and both of these must be much older than the unaltered Cambrian strata which lie above them. Along the eastern borders of Wales, there is an interrupted ridge of igneous rocks which were originally supposed to have broken through the older Paleozoic formations, but which now, owing mainly to the labors of Dr. Callaway and Professor Lapworth, are shown to be older than the base of the Cambrian system. These rocks consist of spherulitic and perlitic felsites, with volcanic breccias and tuffs. They are undoubtedly older than the Olenellus zone. Though the evidence is not quite satis- factory, they may not impossibly lie at the base of a vast mass of sedimentary rocks forming the ridge of the Longmynd. In that case the whole of the Longmynd succession with the volcanic group at its base must be pre-Cambrian and lie uncon- formably below the Olenellus zone. Dr. Callaway has proposed the name ‘“‘Uriconian’’ for this volcanic group, while the sedimen- ’ tary series has been termed “Longmyndian.” On the supposition that the unconformability is established, there would here be a vast mass of stratified and partly erupted material forming a pre- Cambrian formation. Whether in that case any portion of this English series is the equivalent of the Torridonian rocks of 14 LE fOORNALENOR G1 OLOGNE Scotland remains to be determined. The north-western part of the Longmynd ridge is made of red sandstones and conglomer- ates, which certainly resemble the Torridonian rocks of Ross and Sutherland. At the base of the Cambrian rocks in Wales, Dr. Hicks has described a marked volcanic series under the name of ‘‘Pebidian,” which he claims as pre-Cambrian, alleging that it is separated from the Cambrian system by an unconformability, and a band of conglomerates. I have carefully studied the evidence on this ground, and have come to the conclusion that there is no unconformability at the line in question, but that the ordinary Cambrian strata graduate downwards into the volcanic group and can not be disjoined from it. I therefore regard the so-called ‘“‘Pebidian” as merely marking the duration of a volcanic period in early Cambrian time. It will thus be seen that according to my view the unmistak- ably pre-Cambrian rocks of Britain consist of, first and oldest, the Lewisian gneiss; second, the Torridonian sandstones and conglomerates. The Uriconian and Longmyndian formations may prove to be in part or in whole equivalents of the Torri- donian. The Dalradian rocks have not yet had their position determined. They may possibly mark a distinct pre-Cambrian series, but it seems quite as probable that they are only a metamorphic complex in which Archean, Torridonian and Cambrian, or even Lower Silurian rocks are included. S1tr ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. ARE THERE TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS? In a paper published in Science, Nov. 25. 1892, I undertook to study the evidence relating to paleolithic man in the eastern United States from a new point of view,—that furnished by cer- {ain recently acquired knowledge of the contents of quarries and shops where modern aboriginal flaked implements were made. It was shown that all rudely flaked forms could be sufficiently accounted for without the necessity of assuming a very rude state of culture, and that any people, paleolithic or neolithic, would in roughing out blades—the principal product of the flaking process—produce precisely these forms and in great numbers as refuse. It further appeared that the finding of these objects in sporadic cases in glacial gravels or in any formation whatsoever, could not be considered as proving or tending to establish the existence of a particular grade of stone-age culture for the region in which the formation occurs, since they may as readily pertain to a neolithic as to a paleolithic status. It was conclusively shown that no worked stone that can with reason- able safety be called an implement has been reported from the gravels, and that it is therefore clearly useless, not to say unscientific, to go on enlarging upon the evidence of an Ameri- can paleolithic period and multiplying theoretic details of its culture. I now propose to review briefly the question of the age of our so-called paleolithic implements, the questions of the grade of a given feature of culture and of the age or chronologic place of that culture being very properly treated separately, as they depend for their support upon distinct classes of evidence. During the past summer, 1892, certain important items of new evidence have been discovered bearing upon the question of the 15 16 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. occurrence or non-occurrence of rudely flaked stones or of any artificial objects whatsoever in the normal gravels of the Dela- ware Valley, and it therefore becomes necessary to examine somewhat critically such of the published evidence as seems to be seriously affected by these recent observations. It may be stated in beginning that no one disputes the glacial age of the Trenton gravels. The question to be discussed is simply this, —is the evidence satisfactory that works of art have been found in these gravels? Nothing else need be asked or answered. Ido not take up this subject because I love con- troversy; disputation is really most distasteful tome. It happens that under the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institu- tion I have been assigned to the work of making a survey of the archeology of the Atlantic coast region in which large areas, especially in states south of Mason and Dixon’s line, remained almost untouched by investigators, and two years have been consumed mainly in these southern areas. But there are ques- tions that refuse to be confined to definite geographic limits, and evidence secured in one section is sometimes found to bear so directly and forcibly upon problems pertaining primarily to other sections that the student of these problems must perforce become a free lance, and unhesitatingly enter any province promising results of value, howsoever fully occupied it may be by other investigators. One of the most interesting and important ques- tions growing out of the study of American archeology has, as we have seen, arisen in the Delaware Valley, and the turn taken by some of my work in the south and west is such that I cannot pass this question by without consideration. The necessity of taking up the subject of glacial man became more and more apparent as the years passed on, and people continued to say to me, ‘‘You must go to Trenton; we are not satisfied with the present status of the question there; the evidence arrayed in favor of the theory of a paleolithic gravel man needs critical examination.”’ The difficulty of taking up and re-examining evidence, of which the record only remains, is, however, very great, since in GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. 7 most cases the evidence rests upon or consists of field observa- tions, and these cannot be recalled or repeated, and there is absolutely no means of testing directly the value of what is recorded. One may seek either to verify or to discredit the promulgated theories, but years of search may fatl to produce a single new item of evidence bearing decisively upon the subject. It is possible that at one period numerous finds of implements should be reported from certain portions of the gravels, and that afterwards the whole remaining body of these formations should be worked over and searched without securing a trace of art; yet this latter evidence, being negative, need not necessarily be con- sidered sufficient to overturn the original positive evidence if that happens to be of a high class. There is not the least doubt, however, that positive evidence may be so impaired by various defects and inconsistencies, that, utsupported by renewed and well verified observations, it will finally yield to the negative forces ; and if the theories of a gravel man in the eastern United States, howsoever fortified by accumulated observations, are not really properly supported in every way, they are bound in time to fall to the ground. All I can reasonably hope to do now is to have the evidence relating to glacial man placed on trial, and so fully examined and cross-examined that those who accept gravel man need not longer do so blindly without knowing that there are two sides to the question, and those who do not accept him may know something of the reasons for the belief that is in them. The evidence employed to prove the presence of a race of men in the Delaware Valley in glacial times is confined almost wholly to the alleged discovery of rude implements in the glacial gravels. Practically all the evidence has been collected by Dr. C. C. Abbott, and upon his skill as an observer, his faithfulness as a recorder, his correctness of judgment and his integrity of character, the whole matter stands. Many visitors, men of high repute in archeology and geology, have visited the site, but the observations made on such occasions appear not to have been of a nature to be of great value in evidence, the finds being doubt- 18 THE JOURNAL OF (GHROLOGY: ful works of art or not having properly established relationships with the gravels in place. In the discussion of gravel man in eastern America a wide range of objects and phenomena has been considered, but the real evidence, upon which the theory of an ancient race anda peculiar culture must depend, is furnished by a hundred pieces —more or less—of rudely flaked stones said to have come from the gravels in place. And now what can be said with reference to this series of flaked stones further than that they are reported by the collector to have been found in the gravels at definite stated depths? I have elsewhere shown that they are not demonstrably implements in any case, that they are identical in every respect with the quarry-shop rejects of the American Indian, that they do not closely resemble any one of the well established types of European paleolithic implements, and that they are not a sufficient index of a particular stage of culture. I shall now present such reasons as there may be for the belief, held by many, that they were not really found in the undisturbed glacial gravels. It is generally understood that the earliest reported gravel finds of importance were made on the banks of Assanpink creek within the city limits of Trenton, where the gravels to a thick- ness of twenty feet or more were exposed in a railway cutting. Later the river bluff near the lower end of the city, where the gravels were exposed to a depth of from twenty-five to forty feet, yielded large numbers. These two sites, so far as I can learn, furnished at least three-fourths of the finds in place. Other specimens were found singly in slight natural exposures, and in excavations for cellars, sewers, etc., at various points within the city limits. The river bluff was for a considerable period the favorite hunting ground of the searchers for rudely flaked stones, and many specimens were collected. The gravels were exposed in a steep, nearly straight bank, several hundred yards in length, the base of which was washed by the river. There can be no question that Dr. Abbott and others have found shaped objects of various classes upon and in the face of this river bluff, and GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. fe) the visitor to-day, although the bluff is now buried almost com- pletely under city refuse, will hardly fail to find some rudely flaked form in the deeper gullies or upon the narrow river bank or beach at the base. Dr. Abbott explicitly states* that he obtained certain of these specimens from the gravel outcrops, and that they were not in talus formations, but in undisturbed deposits. How then is it possible to do otherwise than accept these state- - ments as satisfactory and final? Very recently, however, fortunate circumstances have brought the evidence furnished by this site again within our co were ce meee © Ow @ ee wee oe = occ Os npn CSS iv aa i anannee\ os Ti jp ma ity, ti HTN NN IN HN NN SDR IN AAAS ‘] ! Meat 11 [et x NT) ET TR SS ‘ wo L) "Huta Fic. 1. Sketch map of the Trenton bluff, showing the relation of the sewer trench to the “implement” yielding slope. . . . a—b section line, Fic. 2. reach, thus enabling us to re-open the discussion under favorable conditions. What I had for some time desired to do in this case was, what I had already done at Piny Branch, D. C., an at Little Falls, Minn., to open a trench into the face of the bluff, and thus secure evidence for or against the theory of a gravel man. This measure was, however, rendered impracticable by the occupation of the bluff margin by a city street; but it hap- pened last summer that the city authorities, desiring to improve the sanitary condition of the city, decided to open a great sewer through this very bluff to get a lower outlet to the river. A trench twelve feet wide and some thirty feet deep, the full depth t Abbott, C. C. Primitive Industry, pp. 493-510. 20 THE JOURNAL OF, GEOLOGY. of the exposed gravels, was carried along the bluff just inside of its margin, opening out into the river at the point where the bluff turns toward the north-east. It was a trenching more com- plete and more satisfactory than any of which I had ever dreamed. At no point for the entire length of the bluff did the excavation depart more than forty feet from the line of the ter- race face—from the upper margin of the slope upon which such plentiful evidence of a supposed gravel man had been obtained. The accompanying map and section, Figs. 1 and 2, will indicate 5S) TRENTON Sewer .| No Implements “a tn v c C7) € xe a £ = $ > X 5 e = SS 3 XQ + bs) ) ° oN : =—+-- aan) + S a 5 ite) - ae) ° ° v *O-°0.90 = QO. 9g 12°00 0.'G 00? Fee eg Fic. 2. Sections made by the river and by the sewer, the former yielding many “implements,” the latter yielding none. the location of the trench, and show the exact relations of the natural and artificial exposures of the gravels. I made several visits to the place, descended frequently into the great cut and examined the gravels and their contents with the utmost care, but without securing a trace of art. Recogniz- ing the vital importance of utilizing to the fullest extent this opportunity of testing the art-bearing nature of the gravels at this point, I resolved to undertake a systematic study of the subject. Summoning my assistant, Mr. William Dinwiddie, from his field of operations in the South, I had him spend upwards of a month at the great trench, faithfully watching the gravels as they were exposed. Mr. Dinwiddie had worked three years under my personal direction, and had helped open GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. 21 upwards of twenty trenches through similar gravel deposits, and was therefore well qualified for the work. Prof. W. J. McGee, Prof. R. D. Salisbury, Dr. Stewart Culin and Dr. Abbott also visited the place one or more times each. Relics of art were found upon the surface and in such portions of the talus as hap- pened to be exposed, but nothing whatever was found in the gravels in place, and the search was closed when it became fully apparent that the case was hopeless. It may be claimed that the conditions under which gravels are exposed in trenching as it progresses, are not as favorable for the collection of enclosed relics as where exposed by natural processes of weathering. This is true in a certain measure,as specimens may be obscured by the damp clinging sand which forms the matrix of the gravels. This, however, would interfere but little with the discovery of large flaked stones, such as we were led to expect in this place, and this slight disadvantage in detecting shaped pieces in fresh exposures is more than over- balanced by the treachery of weathered surfaces which often give to intrusive objects the appearance of original inclusion. The opportunity for studying the gravels in all their phases of bedding, composition and contents, was really excellent, and no one could watch the constantly renewed exposures hour after hour for a month without forming a most decided notion as to the implement bearing qualities of the formation. Not the trace of a flaked stone, or of a flake or artificial fragment of any kind was found, and we closed the work with the firm conviction that the gravels exposed by this trench were absolutely barren of art. But Dr. Abbott claims to have found numerous implements in the bluff face a few feet away and in the same gravels. If this is true, the conditions of glacial occupation of this site must have been indeed remarkable. It is implied that during the whole period occupied by the melting of the ice sheet within the drainage of the Delaware valley the hypothetical rude race lived on a particular line or zone afterwards exposed by the river to the depth of 30 feet, leaving his strange ‘‘tools”’ there by the hun- dreds, while another line or zone, not more than forty feet away 22 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. at most, exposed to the same depth by an artificial trench, was so avoided by him that it does not furnish the least memento of his presence. One vertical slice of the gravels twelve feet thick does not yield even a broken stone, while another slice not probably one-half as thick, cut obliquely through the gravels near by, has furnished subject - matter for numerous books and substantiation for a brace of theories. That no natural line of demarcation between the two section lines is possible, is shown by the fact that the formations are continuous, and that the deposits indicate a constant shifting of lines and areas of accumulation; thus it was impossible for any race to dwell con- “Much Art o = em emer Kmnrer Cs 2- a= ee itd Oo ore a0 % Ooo i SAC esol OVS Moa e sa SO) 26 Cx) 0 ooo oO op PoP P%Q°0 © 0 0 0 0 oe x © 08% oe gtoe 00°92 Sa°0 CPOMOMOM OOS) = SB eeceai boa ain ae 2 qo2°2 ole Ue Sees ofc eo oF 2 0 OO Po FCO REL 08 * Oc > OL Osee Scan O%oe 26th) 2 ahoyoO OS soe foo “4-5 sc0! Ossie Whe OC Oe OO Oclee ev, co C e O.8 G = 5 03S LeeSee b-O--F4 © 08° O °° YZ Vs Fic. 3. @, Reputed “implement” producing zone of the river front. 6, Barren zone of sewer. tinuously upon any spot, line or plane. This is well shown in the section, Fig. 3, which gives the relations of the art-producing sec- tion of Dr. Abbott to the non-art-producing section of the sewer. The gravels were laid down entirely irrespective of subsequent cutting, natural or artificial; yet we are expected to believe that a so-called gravel man could have resorted for a thousand years to the space a, leaving his half shaped or incipient tools at all stages of the gravel building from base to top, failing entirely to visit a neighboring space 64, or to leave there a single flake to reward the most faithful search. It is much easier to believe that one man should err than that a guileless race should thus conspire with a heartless nature to accomplish such extraordinary GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. 23 results. The easier expianation of the whole matter is that the objects found by Dr. Abbott were not really in the gravels, but that they are Indian shop-refuse settled into the old talus deposits of the bluff, and that his eager eyes, blinded by a pre- vailing belief in a paleolithic man for all the werld alike, failed to observe with their wonted keenness and power. But this case does not stand alone. The first discoveries of supposed gravel implements are said to have been made when the Pennsylvania Railway opened a road bed through the creek terrace on the site of the present station. At first numerous specimens of rudely flaked stones were reported, and the locality became widely known to archeologists, but the implement bearing portions of the gravels—and this is a most significant fact—were limited in extent, and the deposit was soon com- pletely removed, the horizontal extension containing nothing. At present there are excellent exposures of the full thickness of the gravels at this point, but the most diligent search is vain, the only result of days of examination being a deep con- viction that these gravels are and always were wholly barren Ob ant, ; It thus appears that here as well as upon the river front, the works of art were confined to local deposits, limited horizontally but not vertically, and a strong presumption is created that the finds were confined to redistributed gravels settled upon the terrace face in the torm of talus.” Dr, Abbott states that “at that point where I gathered the majority of specimens there is a want of stratification.’™ It is well known that such rearranged deposits are often difficult to distinguish from the original gravels. In trenching an implement producing terrace at Wash- ington—where the conditions were probably quite similar to those at the Trenton railroad station—I passed through eighty feet of redistributed talus gravels before encountering the gravels in place, and so deceptively were portions of these deposits reset that experts in gravel phenomena were unable to decide whether they were or were not portions of the original formation * Abbott, C. C. 1oth Annual Report of the Peabody Museum, p. 41. 24 TEE V/V OCRNAL OFANGHOLOG Nc (cretaceous). The question was finally settled by the discovery of artificially shaped stones in and beneath the deposits. Again, an implement bearing deposit of gravel was recently discovered by the late Miss PF. BE. “Babbitt at Little Malls; Minnesota, and sufficient (a very little) digging was done to satisfy the discoverer, and all paleolithic archeologists as well, that the objects were really imbedded in the glacial gravels. In the summer of 1892 I visited the place and carried a trench twenty feet horizontally into the terrace face on the ‘implement bed” level before encountering the gravels in place. The talus deposits were several feet thick, and were of such a nature that their true character could not be determined without careful and extensive trenching. The whole talus deposit was here well stocked with Indian quartz quarry-shop rejects, which were as usual of paleolithic types, and it was but natural that Miss Babbitt’s conclusions, although based as they necessarily were upon inexpert observations, backed by such well known ‘‘types”’ of “implements” should be unhesitatingly accepted by believers. The occurrence of these telling examples of the deceptive appearance of re-set gravels would seem to justify and empha- size the conviction created by a critical examination of the two leading so-called paleolithic sites at Trenton, that Dr. Abbott, notwithstanding his asseverations to the contrary, has been deceived. Very strong support, it seems to me, is given to this conclusion by the recently published opinion of the late Dr. H. Carvill Lewis, a glacialist familiar with the Trenton region, and with the work of Dr. Abbott at the period of his paleolithic castle building. Dr. Lewis is reported to have maintained before an open meeting of the Academy of Science in Philadel- phia “that what Dr. Abbott believed to be undisturbed layers (of gravel) were those of an ancient talus.”? This remark may refer to both the main sites—the one at the railroad station and the other at the river front—or possibly only to the former. I have also heard it stated that that eminent scholar, Dr. Leidy, who must have had ample opportunities of ‘Brinton, D. G.,Science, Oct. 28, p. 249. GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. 25 forming correct opinions upon the subject, held pretty much the same views of Dr. Abbott’s finds. | To make the above criticism entirely clear, a few words of explanation of talus phenomena may be added. As a river cuts its channel deeper and deeper into deposits of gravel a section is gradually exposed, but the gravels break down readily under A 8 A x Fic. 4. A freshly formed gravel bluff. nN v =) x 7 Fic. 5. Early stage of talus formation. ae Coe eeu ad Nobirs ee Penner wees © Cee eee : sae nes = : mam etan DOA AAR t) Shipte ese Bam 7 ry Woosassesne se ; N PESOS ses pens . v Sage a= = ee H ~~ i 352 : } ¢ Beatin lain mae ana eS REE oS 1 KS 7 é Fic. 6. An ancient talus. atmospheric influences and the exposed face does not retain a high angle. The upper part crumbles and descends toward the base, there to rest against the slope or to be carried away by the stream. A supposititious case will be convenient for illustration. A gravel terrace twenty feet in height is encroached upon by the 20 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. river at high water and undermined, and the face breaks down vertically, leaving an exposure as illustrated in Fig. 4. Ina very short time the upper portions become loosened and fall below, giving a steep slope as seen in Fig. 5. The process goes on with gradually decreasing rapidity, and if the river does not again encroach seriously, a practically stable slope is reached, as shown in Fig. 6. Such a talus may be hundreds or even thousands of years old, but there is rarely any means of deter- mining its exact age. If the gravels are homogeneous in char- acter, the talus will simulate their normal condition so completely that the distinction cannot be made out in ordinary gullies or by unsystematic digging. If the gravels contain varied strata the talus will be composite, and will be more readily distinguished from at least portions of the material in place. Now it is important to observe what may be the possible art contents of such a talus as that shown in Fig. 6. It may con- tain all objects of art originally included in that portion of the gravels represented by a, 6, c, together with all articles that hap- pened to be upon the surface 0, c, beside such objects as may have accumulated from dwelling or shop work upon its own surface, after the slope became sufficiently reduced to be occu- pied for these purposes. A talus is. therefore liable to contain, and in the utmost confusion, relics of all periods of occupation, supposing always that there were such periods, from the begin- ning of the formation of the gravel deposits down to the present moment. As a rule such a talus, if art-containing, will have a large percentage of shop and quarry-shop refuse, for the reason that the exposed gravels, and the banks and beds of rivers cut- ting them, furnish, as a rule, a good deal of the raw material utilized by workers in stone, and the shops in which the work was done are usually located upon the slopes and outer margins of the terraces. Although there is the possibility of very con- siderable age for these talus deposits, it is unlikely that any of them date back as far as the close of the glacial epoch or at all near it, for rivers change back and forth constantly, under- mining first one bank and then the other, so that a very large GLACIAE MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. Ly percentage of our talus deposits have been formed well within the historic period. | At Trenton the constantly exposed gravel banks afforded considerable argillite in bowlders, fragments and heavy masses, as well as some other flakable stones of infertor quality little used, and it is inevitable that the Indian who dwelt upon the shores of the river should have sought the workable pieces along the bluff, leaving the refuse everywhere; and it is a nec- essary consequence that the terrace margin, the bluff face, and the talus deposits, places little fitted for habitation, should for long distances contain no trace of any art shapes save such as pertain to manufacture. Thus are fully and_ satisfactorily accounted for all the turtle backs and other rude forms that our paleolith hunters have been so assiduously gathering. Nothing can be more fully apparent than that no other race than the Indian in his historic character and condition need be conjured up to reasonably account for every phase and every article of the recovered art. Mistaken interpretations of the nature of shop rejects, and the common association of these objects with redistributed gravels, are probably accountable for the many misconceptions that have arisen. Talus deposits form exceed- ingly treacherous records for the would-be chronologist. They are the reef upon which more than one paleolithic adventurer has been wrecked. Relics of art attributed to gravel man have been collected, so far as I can gather from museum labels and from incidental references in various publications, from a number of sites aside from the two already referred to. These are scattered over the city, and the finds were made mostly in exposures of the gravels that remained visible for a short time only, as in street and cellar excavations and well pits. These reported finds can never be brought within the range of re-examination, and the searcher after unimpeachable testimony must content himself with plac- ing them in the doubtful column on general principles. Urban districts are so subject to disturbance through cutting down of hills, filling in of depressions, grading of streets, digging of 28 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. - foundations, cellars, sewers, wells and graves that no man can, from a limited exposure such as those producing the reported tools necessarily were, speak with certainty of the undisturbed nature of the deposits penetrated. It is doubtful if any one is justified in publishing such observations at all without serious Guetyz, Such testimony is liable to fall of its own inherent weak- ness, being absolutely valueless if unsupported by collateral evidence of real weight. It can only be made permanently available to science by the discovery of something unusual or unique with which to couple it, something decidedly un-Indian in character or type, as for example the two skulls now in the Peabody Museum. These objects and the antler knife-handle exhibited with them may be alluded to as the only finds so far made at Trenton, having of themselves the least potentiality as proof and these skulls and this knife-handle must yet be subjected to the rigid examination made necessary by the importance of the conclusions to be based upon them. Something may now be said concerning the art remains upon which this discussion hinges, and upon which conclusions of the greatest importance to anthropology are supposed to depend. Let us pass over all that has been said with regard to their manner of occurrence and association with the gravels and ask them simply what story they tell of themselves. Does this story, so far as we are able clearly to read it, speak of a great antiquity and a peculiar culture, or does it hint rather at vital weaknesses in the position taken by the advocates of these ideas ? We shall see. The history of the utilization of rudely flaked stones in the attempt to establish a gravel man in America has never been written, but as read between the lines of paleolithic literature, it runs about as follows: The theory of a very rude and ancient people, having a unique culture and certain peculiar art limitations, was developed in Europe many years ago in a manner well known and often rehearsed. This people was associated with the ice age in Europe, and this epoch, with its moraines and till and sedimented gravels, was found to have been repeated in America. It was the most natural thing GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. 29 possible that these discoveries should carry with them the sug- gestion that man may have existed here as in Europe during that epoch, and that his culture was of closely corresponding grade. These were legitimate inferences and warranted the instituting of careful researches, but it was a dangerous sugges- tion to put into the minds of enthusiastic novices with fertile brains and ready pens. The idea was hardly transplanted to American soil before finds began to be made. The so-called MOVOES | finds here should be made, and everything in the way of flaked b) of European paleoliths suggested the lines upon which stones connected directly or indirectly with the glacial gravels which had not yet been fully credited to and absorbed by the inconvenient Indian, was seized upon as representing the ancient time and its hypothetic people and culture. In the early days of the investigation the various rude forms of flaked stones, resulting from failures in manufacture, had not been studied, and were shrouded in convenient mystery, and they thus became the foundation of the new archeologic dynasty in America, the dynasty of the turtle-back. Dr. Abbott states in his first work* that these rude “ implements” are not especially characteristic of any one locality, but seem to be scattered uniformly over the state. Specimens of every type, he says, are ‘‘found upon the surface, and are plowed up every spring and autumn; but this in no way militates against the opinion that these ruder forms are far older than the well-chipped jasper and beautifully-polished porphyry stone-work.”? At that stage of the investigation it was not at all necessary that a specimen should come from the gravels in place or from any given depth, since the ‘“‘type” was sup- posed to be easily recognized and was a sufficient means of settling the question of age. Rude ‘‘implements”’ were called for and they were found. The only requirements were that they should not be of well- known Indian types, that they should be rude and have some sort of resemblance to what were known as paleolithic implements t Abbott, C.C. The Stone Age in N. J., Sm. Rep. 1875, p. 247. 2 Ibid, p. 252. 30 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. abroad. Since most of these so-called gravel implements of Europe are also doubtless the rejects of manufacture resemblances were readily found. The early attempts to utilize these rejects — in support of the theory, and make them masquerade creditably as “implements” with specialized features and self-evident adaptation to definite ice-age uses, now appear decidedly amus- ing. Gradually, however, the lines have been drawn upon this early license, and it is to-day well understood by all careful students, that since the rude forms are so often repeated in modern neolithic refuse, the only reliable test of a gravel “implement ”’ is its occurrence in the gravels in place. Thatta! particular “implement,” said to have been obtained from the gravels, is of ‘ paleolithic type,” does not in the least strengthen its claims to being a dona fide gravel implement; nor does its easy assignment to a ‘“‘type”’ give any additional value to the collector’s claim that the gravels said to contain it are implement bearing. The very names, ‘rude implement,” “ paleolithic implement,” etc., carry with them a certain amount of mys- terious suggestion; one thinks of unique, significant shapes and of strange, archaic uses. At their mere mention, the great ice sheet looms up with startling realism, and the reindeer and the mighty mammoth appear upon the scene. The reader of our paleolithic literature is led to feel that these antiquated objects carry volumes of history in their worn and weather-beaten faces, but this is all the figment of fertile brains. These objects have without exception the appearance of the most commonplace every-day rejects of manufacture without specialization and without hidden meaning. They tell of themselves no story whatsoever, save that of the oft -repeated failure of the abor- iginal blade maker in his struggle with refractory stones. This will be shown with greater clearness farther on. But the scheme does not end with the repetition of a Euro- pean state of affairs. Our gravel archeologists have not been content to adopt that feature of the foreign scheme which utterly destroys the paleolithic race before a higher culture is brought upon the scene. It was thought to improve upon the GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. 31 borrowed plan by allowing for a gradual development upward from the paleolithic stage, represented exclusively by a class of meaningless bits of flaked stone, through a period less rude, characterized by productions so far advanced as to be assigned ‘to a definite use. These latter productions censist mainly of rather large and often rude blades, sometimes plain, but gen- erally notched or modified at the broader end as if to be set ina handle, or attached to a spear or arrow shaft. These were assigned to post-glacial times in such a way as to bridge or partly bridge the great space between the glacial epoch and the present. They were separated arbitrarily from the body of the collections of the region, and referred to as probably the work of an Eskimo race. This arrangement produced a_ pleasing symmetry and completeness, and brought the history of man down to the beginning of the Indian epoch, which is repre- sented by all of those forms of art with which the red man is historically associated. Three principal periods are thus thought to be represented by the finds at Trenton; and in the arrangement of the collec- tions these grand divisions are illustrated by three great groups of relics, which are looked upon by the founders of the scheme as an epitome of native American art and culture. By others this grouping is looked upon as purely empirical, as an arbitrary separation of the normal art remains of the historic Indian, not suggested by anything in the nature or condition of the objects, nor in the manner of their discovery. (ihiem SE slamom Miecatiie sor thes ischeme snequines saysmore detailed examination than can be given it here. It may be stated, however, that the separation of the so-called Eskimo spear points, or whatever they may be, from the great body of associated articles of flaked stone, appears to be a highly arbi- trary proceeding. That they were extensively made by the Indians is proved by the occurrence of refuse resulting from their manufacture on modern shop sites, and that they were used by the Indian, is equally apparent from their common occurrence on modern dwelling sites. The exceptionally large size of the 32 THE JOURNAL ORNGE OLOGY: argellite points is readily accounted for by the nature of the material. It was the only stone of the region well adapted to the manufacture of long blades or projectile points. Jasper, quartz and flint have such minute cleavage that, save in rare cases, small implements only could be made from them. Their peculiar manner of occurrence, described at so much length by Dr. Abbott, has been given undue consideration and weight. The phenomena observed may all be accounted for as a result of the vicissitudes of aboriginal life and occupation within the last few hundred years as fully and satisfactorily as by jumping thousands of years backward into the unknown. Whatsoever real support there may be for the ‘ Eskimo” theory, either in the published or the unpublished evidence, it is apparent that under the present system of solitary and inexpert research, the scientific world will gain little that it can utilize without distrust and danger. Whatsoever may be the final out- come—which outcome is bound to be the truth—it is clear that there is little in the present evidence to warrant the separa- tion of a ‘paleolithic”’ that of the Indian. That the art remains of the Trenton region are essentially a and an “Eskimo” period of art from unit, having no natural separation into time, culture or stock groups, is easily susceptible of demonstration. I have already presented strong reasons for concluding that all the finds upon the Trenton sites are from the surface or from recent deposits, and that all may reasonably be assigned to the Indian. A find has recently been made which furnishes full and decisive evi- dence upon this point. At Point Pleasant, on the Delaware, some twenty-five miles above Trenton, there are outcrops of argillite, and here have been discovered recently the shop sites upon which this stone was worked. ‘There are two features of these shops to which the closest attention must be given. The first is that they are manifestly modern; they are situated on the present flood plain of the Delaware, and but a few feet above average water level, the glacial terrace here being some forty or t Abbott, C. C. Popular Science Monthly, Dec., 1889. GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. 33 fifty feet in height. These shops, therefore, represent the most modern phases of aboriginal industry, and may have been occu- pied at the coming of William Penn. The second point is that every type of flaked argillite found in the Trenton region, asso- ciated with the gravels or otherwise, is found-on this site. It was to a certain extent a quarry site, for the great masses of argillite brought down by the floods were here broken up and removed from the river banks or bed. It was a shop site, for here the articles, mainly blades, were roughed out, and it was also a dwelling place—a village site—where all the specialized forms of flaked stones made from the blades were prepared for use. Here are found great numbers of the rude failures, dupli- cating every feature of the mysterious ‘“ paleolith”? with which our museums are stocked, and exhibiting the same masterly quitting at just the point ‘“where no further shaping was pos- sible.’* Here we see the same boldly manipulated “ cutting edge,” the ‘flat bottom” and “high peak,” and the same mys- teriously weathered and disintegrated surfaces, so skillfully made, by a nice balancing of accidents,’ to tell the story of chronologic sequence in deposition. Beside the failures, we have here, as on other quarry shop sites, the evidence of more advanced work, the wide, thick, defective blades, and many of the long, thin blades broken at or near the finishing point. Here, too, just back of the roughing- out shops, are the dwelling sites from which many specialized forms are obtained. The ‘‘ Eskimo” type is fully represented as well as the ordinary spear point, the arrow point, and the perforator of our Indian. There is not a type of flaked argillite known in the Delaware valley that may not be duplicated here on this modern Indian site, and this has been known by local archeologists for years. Why so little has been said about the matter is thus explained. Dr. Abbott, in 1890, discovering this site, and finding ‘‘ typical paleolithic implements”’ (the ordinary ruder forms of rejects) among the refuse, was so entirely at a * Abbott, C. C. Smithsonian Report, 1875, p. 248. ?Ibid. Primitive Industry, p. 487. 34 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. loss to explain the occurrence that he felt compelled to again ‘take up the examination of the gravel deposits of the valley of the Delaware” with the hope of “ finally solving the problem.’ The true conditions would have been at once apparent to any one not utterly blinded by the prevailing misconceptions. The entire simplicity of the archeologic conditions in the Delaware valley may be further illustrated. Had William Penn paused in his arduous traffic with the tawny Delawares, and glanced out with far-sighted eyes from beneath the pendant branches of the great elm at Shackamaxon, he might have beheld an uncouth savage laboriously fabricating rude ice age tools, making the clumsy turtle - back, shaping the mysterious paleolith, thus taking that first and most interesting theoretical step in human art and history. Had he looked again a few moments later he might have beheld the same tawny individual deeply absorbed in the task of trimming a long rude spear point of “Eskimo” type from the refractory argillite. If he had again paused when another handful of baubles had been judi- ciously exchanged, he would have seen the familiar redskin carefully finishing his arrow points and fitting them to their shafts preparatory to a hunting and fishing cruise on the placid Delaware. Thus in a brief space of time Penn might have gleaned the story of the ages —the history of the turtle-back, the long spear point and their allies—as in a single sheaf. But the opportunity was wasted, and the heaps of flinty refuse left upon the river bank by the workmen were the only record left of the nature of the work of that day. Two hundred years of aboriginal misfortune and Quaker inattention and neglect have resulted in so mixing up the simple evidence of a day’s work, that it has taken twenty-five years to collect the scattered frag- ments, to sift, separate and classify them, and to assign them to theoretic places in a scheme of culture evolution that spans ten thousand years. Yet is there really nothing in it all, in the theories, the * Abbott, C.C. Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of American Archeology, University of Pennsylvania. No. 1, p. 7. GLACIAL MAN IN THE TRENTON GRAVELS. 35 observations, the collections and the books? Do I speak too positively in condemnation of the results of years of earnest investigation? Perhaps so, but the voluminous testimony is so overloaded with inaccuracies, the relics of unscientific method and misleading hypotheses, that every item must be sharply questioned; and the conclusions reached so far overstep the limits warranted by the evidence, that heroic measures alone can be effectual in determining their exact value. If, as many believe, vital errors have been embodied in the evidence pre- sented by the advocates of the theory, it is impossible to state the case too strongly. Error once fully absorbed into the litera- ture of science has many advantages over the tardy truth; it is strongly fortified and must be attacked and exposed without fear or favor. Truth involved with it cannot permanently suffer. If the twin theories of a gravel and a paleolithic man in eastern America are to be assailed as unsound or as not properly sup- ported, it should be done now while the originators and uphold- ers are alive and alert to sustain their positions or to yield to the advances of truth. I do not wish to wrongly characterize or to unduly minimize the evidence brought to bear in favor of these theories. I do intend, however, to assist the world so far as possible in securing an exact estimate of all that has been said and done, and all that is to be done. In a previous article I have examined the evidence relating to paleolithic art in the eastern United States, and have indicated its utter inadequacy and unreliability. In this paper the testi- mony relating to the occurrence of gravel art, in the locality most fully relied upon by advocates of the theory, has been partiaily reviewed and subjected to the strong light of recent observations. It is found that the whole fabric, so imposing in books and museums, shrinks away surprisingly as it is approached. The evidence furnished by the bluff face and by the railway cutting, the two leading sites, is fatally weakened by the practical demonstration of the fact that the gravels proper are at these points barren of art remains. In endeavoring to naturalize an immigrant hypothesis, our gravel searchers, unac- 36 LE JOURNAL OF (GHOLOGV. quainted with the true nature of the objects collected and discussed, and little skilled in the observation of the phe- nomena by means of which all questions of age must be deter- mined, have undoubtedly made grievous mistakes and hee thus misled an expectant and credulous public. The articles themselves, the so-called gravel finds, when closely studied are found to tell their own story much more fully and accurately than it has heretofore been read by students of archeology. This story is that the art of the Delaware valley is to all intents and purposes a unit, that there is nothing unique or especially primitive or ancient and nothing un- Indian in it all. All forms are found on demonstrably recent sites of manufacture. The rude forms assigned by some to glacial times are all apparently ‘‘ wasters” blades of “Eskimo” type are only the larger blades, knives and spear points of the Indian, separated arbitrarily from the body of Indian manufacture. The large of the art-remains to subserve the ends of a theory, certain obscure phenomena of occurrence having been found to give color to the proceeding. To place any part of this art, rude or elaborate, permanently in any other than the ordinary Indian category will take stronger proofs than have yet been developed in the region itself. The question asked in the beginning, ‘‘Are there traces of glacial man in the Trenton gravels ?”’ if not answered decisively in the negative, stands little chance, considering present evi- dence, of being answered in the affirmative. In view of the fact that numerous observations of apparent value have been made in other sections, there is yet sufficient reason for letting the query stand, and we may continue to cherish the hope that pos- sibly by renewed effort and improved methods of investigation, something may yet be found in the Trenton gravels clearly demonstrative of the fascinating belief in a great antiquity for the human race in America. The evidence upon which paleolithic man in America depends is so intangible that, unsupported by supposed analogies with European conditions and phenomena, and by the suggestions of CEACGIAL MAAN UNG TELE TRIN LON 4G RAVES: SY; an ideal scheme of culture progress, it would vanish in thin air; and if the theory of a glaczal man can summon to its aid no better testimony than that furnished by the examples examined in this paper, the whole scheme, so elaborately mounted and so confi- dently proclaimed, is in imminent danger of eatly collapse. W. H. Houmes. GEOLOGY, AS) Ay EARL, OF VA COEEEGE CURRICULUM. THE demand for scientific studies as a part of the college curriculum is felt by all those who have to do with the provision of higher instruction for American youth. The reasons for this may be various, but a fundamental reason is found in the ten- dency among the American people in particular, and in this age in general, toward practicality in all things. Applied to educa- tion this practicality asks for a training which shall have a direct bearing upon the business of life to be followed immediately after the training period is ended. It means a differentiation of subjects and specialization in methods to adjust the education to the different functions which the students taking it are prepar- ing for. It calls for a professional education for those who expect to become lawyers, doctors, ministers, or teachers,—a technical education for those who are to engage in the arts of the mechanical or civil engineer, or of the architect. It results not only in the establishment of colleges and _ universities devoted to this kind of education, but it affects the methods of the high schools and academies, and is felt down to primary schools, and on the other hand the older institutions founded on a different plan are adapted to the popular demand by the addition to the regular studies of “ electives,” chosen not always for their value or disciplinary studies, but because of the practical applicability of the information to be derived from them, to the business of the student. Without discussing the relative merits of the two ideas of education, the chief contrast between them may be found in the character of the results sought. The knowledge of things and their uses is of chief importance in the practical education ; the knowlege of ideas and skill in their use is the aim of the liberal education. Geology is one of the sciences which most men will at 38 GHOLOGYGAS PARI; OF A COLLEEGEVGORRICULUM, 39 once classify as among the practical sciences. It deals with matters of practical importance to everybody. Coal, iron, the metals, silver, gold, tin, lead, building stone, sand, clay, petroleum, and natural gas, and all geological products are essential materials of modern civilization, and a knowledge of them and of their modes and places of occurrence is one of the requisites of an education, either from the practical or the liberal point of view. So too the dynamics of atmospheric and hydraulic erosion, the agency of rivers and oceans in destruction, removal and recon- struction of geological formations have their eminently practical bearings upon the various arts of engineering. While the practical value of geology is thus evident and undisputed, it is not on this account that its importance as a part of a college course of education is urged. As a practical study geology -becomes the centre of a group of studies requiring years for mastery. Chemistry and physics are primarily essential to a full understanding of the most common of geological problems. And to use geological facts.and phenomena, an acquaintance with the complex methods of engineering, civil and mechanical, which again call for a thorough mastery of mathematics, is necessary. Mineralogy and petrography, metallurgy and mining engineering have each reached a stage of development entitling them to the rank of separate sciences, but the practical training of the geologist should include them all. When we add the biological sciences connected with historical geology, paleon- tology, zodlogy and botany, with all the laboratory and field work required for their proper study, we have a group of affiliated branches of learning requiring four or five years of continuous study after the student has learned how to study. It is plain therefore that only a specialist, one who is willing to neglect other studies, or who has previously had a liberal training, can perfect himself on the practical side in the science of geology. But irrespective of its practical uses, as a means of training and supplementary to the ordinary studies of a college curricu- lum, geology is one of the most useful of the sciences of obser- 40 TELE OU LRINALE OL GLE OLLO GMs vation. It is in providing that particular training to which President Eliot has recently called attention in the Forum (Dec., 1892, Wherein Popular Education Has Failed), that geology can be used to such advantage. Speaking particularly of the lower education, President Eliot says it is “the judgment and that particularly require attention. Their systematic development is to be attainedin the four directions ) reasoning powers of ‘observing accurately, recording correctly, comparing, grouping and inferring justly, and expressing cogently the results of these mental operations.” (p. 421.) The attainment of these ends is one of the purposes of liberal education, whether it be in the primary school or in the university. And geology, or any other science, is of value in a college course in proportion to its fitness for the exercise and development of these functions of the student. Geology may be taught without regard to these ends, and then it is valuable from the practical point of view, but when we examine it in respect of its availability as a discip- linary study we find it offering particular attractions. Using the distinction between theory and practice, which is as old as Aristotle, geology in its theoretical aspect is more easily comprehended than is the theoretical aspect of most of the modern sciences. This arises first from the fact that the facts and phenomena are of a simple and grand nature, making it pos- sible for the teacher to direct certain attention to the specific facts under consideration. The water of the rivers, the mud by the road side, the rocks and sands on the shore are familiar objects to all, and it is a simple matter to call attention by ordinary language to the specific facts regarding them, which, analyzed out, are to form the basis of exact ideas and scientific definition and classification. Geology is the one science among the natural sciences which may begin with the common language of the pupil, and by means of such language alone may build up ideas of precise phenomena in scientific terms. Physiography or physical geography surpasses geology proper in this par- ticular, as the admirable work of Professor Davis is showing, and on this account it is the best introduction to geology. But CLOLOGNM@A Seah OA NC OLEE GEAGCORRLGGIE OM AM the very largeness and indefiniteness of the facts are in the way of the use of physical geography for the exercise of the finer and more exact functions of observation. The disciplinary value of classics and mathematics is to a considerable extent derived from this quality, the precision with which the words or figures kindle like ideas. So long as the object of the training is to teach the knowledge of ideas and how to use them, classics and mathematics are the simplest and purest means of develop- ing a liberal education. The addition of sciences to the college course is not because of the usefulness of the knowledge of things thus to be gained, but because the language of the sciences is essential to call forth the observation and the exercise of the accompanying mental operations. When it comes to dealing with the ideas associated with par- ticular sense-observation, where form or motion can not be expressed in simple mathematical terms, language can not com- municate a new idea or kindle it in another mind with precision. It is necessary by some means to recall or to present the object itself to the student. In the teaching of science this point is of great importance, and much of the unsatisfactoriness of science- teaching is doubtless due to failure to note it. No circumlocu- tion of words can arouse in another or communicate to him the idea appropriate to a sensation he has never felt. The blind man whose eyes are opened sees men as trees walking. In the use of science for elementary training (and the train- ing is elementary until the student is capable of investigating and interpreting the facts and phenomena of a science directly ) that science is the better which deals with objects which are sim- ple, common and easily observed. Such is geology in some of its aspects. Every time the student walks in the country he sees the facts discussed in the text-book or by his teacher; and from attention to those with which he is already familiar he can be readily led to observe and give attention to others and to analyze those already in his mind by properly directed questions. In the field of geology are found the ready means for the exercise and development of observation and thought. The 42 THE JOURNAL. OF GEOLOGY. learner begins with ideas which every intelligent mind associates with the objects described or named, and by degrees the marks of his knowledge are increased, the relations of things are grasped, and the content of his ideas associated with the lan- guage of his science is enlarged. In the process of learning the science he has been building up his stock of knowledge of facts and phenomena, but, of more importance than that, he has learned the method of observing and of scientific thinking. He has had training in the methods of reducing the hard facts of nature to the laws of thought and practice, he has seen the method by which theoretical order is made out of the inter- minable confusion and complexity of natural things. Beside this primary reason for the use of geology as a disci- plinary science-study, there is a second reason arising from the symbolic nature of a large group of its facts. This aspect of the science is best seen in the historical and stratigraphical parts of geology, in which fossils are the chief data for study. The interpretation of a fossil into a species of organism, having its definite place in the elaborate classification of the zodlogist, or as an indicator of the time and place and mode of formation of the strata in which it is buried, is, to be sure, a most intricate and, at first thought it would seem, an unattractive process. But no more so, I would say, than the interpretation of a series of Greek characters. The interpretation of the Greek reveals to us the richest results of human thought and most perfect laws of human speech, and we find therefore in the analysis required the most perfect discipline of the powers of speech and lan- guage. The fossil too holds, ready to be revealed, the story of the history of the world and the laws of the evolution of the organic life of the globe, and records an inexhaustible wealth of information regarding the laws of nature. But as an instru- ment of intellectual discipline its great merit lies in its symbolic nature. It is this symbolic character cf the classical languages and of the mathematics which fits them to be universal means of liberal training. The symbolic nature of the fossil fits it to become the exponent of training in the pure science of nature. GHOLOGY AS *PAKIse OF ASCOLLEGE CURRICOLUM. \A3 The fossil is a mark which stands for something, and thus, in the nature of things, it asks for interpretation. As a symbol it stimulates minute and accurate observation, and kindles close and exhaustive thought; as a symbol it leaves us the ideas it has engendered after it is lost to memory as_an observation. Thus the value of its study does not depend upon the reten- tion in the memory of the facts brought before the mind, but in the training of the mental processes required in its interpre- tation. The study of this branch of geology exercises and develops all the faculties which are specially exercised in any scientific investigation. Another aspect in which it is an ideal means for such training comes from the fact that it is equally valuable at every stage of progress of the student. When first examined it means nothing to him. He knows nothing of organism, of strata, of geological time. The fossil gains meaning only as he is able to put meaning into it. The student must ask questions, and as step by step he answers his questions by more minute and wider examination, the fossil holds a fuller interpretation. His studies lead him to investigation of the whole field of nature, the rocks, the formation of deposits, the action of the elements, the conditions of life, the forms of organ- ism, their functions and habits, the laws of growth, their adap- . tation to environment, the changes of events in time, the efforts of association and struggle for life, the principles of evolution and development—the migration and origin and extinction of organisms on the globe. Nothing in nature is without interest to him. Further than this the amount of good he gains is not measured by the number of fossils he studies, but by the wideness of his research. A handful of fossils from some one fossilifer- ous ledge may be the text for a year’s study, and the methods acquired in the study may be the nucleus of a life’s work. In this department of geology the possibilities for new discoveries, new developments of science are almost endless. As a single author thoroughly read develops a wealth of knowl- edge of the laws of language and thought, so geology may be 44 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. studied by the use of a limited set of its phenomena and become the introduction to the exhaustive study of natural science. Another advantage attaching to geology as a science -study for the college curriculum, arises from the fact that it may be pursued deeply without the elaborate aid to the senses required in other sciences for making minute record or measurement of facts or phenomena. As in language and mathematics, it is essential to acquire a familiarity with the grammar, the diction- ary and the symbols, formulas and rules of their usage before the finer training in the use of thought begins, so the vocabulary and the definitions of a science must be acquired before much use can be made of the higher discipline to be derived from scientific study. In language study this higher training comes from practice in making the minute analysis, in detecting the fine shades of meaning expressed in the literature itself. So it is important in selecting a science to be used as a disciplinary study that the facts and laws of nature with which it is concerned should be capable of clear and precise definition, and, moreover, that it should furnish a field for the study of the minute and intricate relationship existing between the different facts which are to be attained by personal inspection of the objects them- selves. In most of the sciences this deeper exercise of scientific thought requires for its successful pursuit artificial aids to the common senses of observation. Chemistry must have its puri- fied acids and reagents, test tubes, and delicate scales for measurement of weight and volume. Mineralogy must have its chemical analyses, or optical measurements so fine that micro- scopes of highest power are essential tools for the investigation. Physics must have the most delicate measurements of time and space and weight. Botany, for the earlier stages of study, is fully equal to geology in these respects, but its scope is much less general. Zodlogy requires dissections calling for skill in manipulation, and in other respects is ill adapted to general classes. But precision in the intellectual processes of observa- tion and reasoning can be cultivated in the use of geological facts to their highest and widest perfection, with scarcely any GEOLOGYAAS PART OF A COLLEGE CURRICULUM, « %A5 aids to the normal faculties of observation. A couple of hammers, a pocket lens, a chisel and a few pointed steel tools for revealing fossils, a tape line, compass and clinometer are the few equipments that will enable the geologist to carry his investigations to almost any degree of thoreughness. What has already been said applies to the study of the pure science of geology either in the field or in the laboratory. There is still another use to which this, as other sciences, may be put in disciplining the college student in directions not provided for by literary or mathematical studies,—the study of man as an investigator. In the pursuit of the study of geology, the first instruction must be received in didactic form, but after the text- book and lecture stage is passed, or while it is under way con- sultation of the literature of the sciences is appropriate. In the use of scientific literature the critical judgment is brought under training, and the varying interpretations of well known phe- nomena by expert scientists suggest the prominent part which the notions already in the mind play in the interpretation of the external facts observed. The experienced geologist will recall many cases of honest report of impossible facts by men who are unable to distinguish between what they saw and the false inter- pretations they made of these observations. One man will report that a live toad jumped out of the middle of a solid piece of coal, when it was heated in the stove; another will swear that he saw a fossil shark’s tooth taken out of a ledge of Trenton limestone. It is evident that our memory of observation is not the revival of the object producing the sensation, but of the idea we framed of the sensation at the time. The study of original descriptions of objects of nature reveals the fact that the describer uses the ideas he already has in his mind as he does the standard foot-rule in his hand for measur- ing that which he describes, and it is by the study of scientific literature and the comparison of views of many scientists that this highest discipline of the observational faculties is attained — the power to determine the personal equation of error for the observer, and thus see through his descriptions a truer represen- 46 THE JOUKNALY OF GEOLOGY. tation of the facts than the observer himself saw. Geological literature is admirably adapted for this higher discipline, and in no field of science (I think not in astronomy itself), has wider and more comprehensive thought been applied than in geology. While other branches of science have been developed and become more narrow and special in their treatment of the facts concerned, geology still stands as the most comprehensive of all the sciences of nature. H. S. WILLIAMs. YALE COLLEGE, November 30, 1892. TEP NATUKE OF iii SE NGEACIAL, DRIFT OF THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN. Ir is of some importance, both to the practical work of the field and the theoretical deductions of the study, to determine the nature and amount of the drift that was carried forward in the body of the ancient continental glaciers, and brought out on their terminal slopes and at length deposited at their frontal edges, and to distinguish it from that which was pushed or dragged or rolled along at the bottom of the ice.t It may be helpful to indulge in a speculative discussion at the outset to prepare the way for the specific evidence and the inferences to which it leads. Whenever a prominence of rock is overridden and enveloped by a glacier of the free-moving continental type, one of two things takes place ; either that part of the ice which passes over the summit of the prominence flows down its lee slope, carrying whatever debris it dislodges down to the rear base, and thence onward along the bottom of the ice, or else the currents which pass on either side of the prominence close in behind it before the corresponding current which passes over the summit reaches the point of their junction, in which case the summit current is forced to pass off more nearly horizontally into the body of the ice, carrying with it whatsoever debris it has dislodged from the summit of the prominence and embodied within its base. The law of the phenomena appears to be that whenever the height of the prominence is less than one-half the base, measured trans- versely to the movement of the ice, the summit current will fol- low down the lee slope ; but whenever the height of the promi- * Debris, which may be imbedded in the basal layer of the ice during some part of its transportation, but which is brought down to the bottom and subjected to basal action in the latter part of its course, and ultimately becomes a part of the basal deposit, is not here included in the englacial drift. 47 48 LI ZID OUIINGMIL, (12 (EXE OQULOGN, nence is more than one-half the transverse base, the lateral currents will close in on the lee, and the summit current will flow off into the body of the ice. This simple law is, however, subject to very considerable modifications from several different sources which may be grouped under (1) differences in the’ friction arising from basal contact, and (2) differences of internal fric- tion and mobility. The lateral currents will expose more surface to the sides and base of the hill and the adjoining plain, and will be more subject to conflicting currents, while, on the other hand, being deeper currents, they will presumably be more fluent. These and other qualifying conditions will go far to vitiate the application of the law, but its statement may have some value as representing a general conception of the phenomena. When the height of the prominence becomes great relative to the total thickness of the ice, the fluency of the summit current may be much reduced relative to that of the central parts of the lateral currents. When the prominence reaches the surface, blocks dislodged from it are borne away on the surface of the glacier, and constitute superglacial drift. Blocks dislodged from near the summit, but below the surface of the ice, are presumably carried onward in the upper zone of the glacier; while other blocks detached at various but sufficient heights on the side of the prominence are doubtless borne around into the lee and car- ried forward in the same vertical plane as the summit stream, so that there comes to be a vertical zone set with boulders moving on from the lee side of the nunatak. Lofty ledges or plateaus, with vertical or undercut faces, furnish similar means for the lodgment of debris within the body of the ice. In these and doubtless in other ways it appears that there came to be lodged directly within the body of the Pleistocene glaciers at some considerable distances above their bases, blocks derived from rock prominences that rose with sufficient steep- ness above the general surface of the country over which the ice passed. The lodgment of debris on the lateral borders of gla- ciers is neglected here because it has little or no applicability to ENGLACIAL DRIFT OF THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN. 49 the phenomena of the upper Mississippi basin. — It is also doubt- ful whether any prominences protruded through the ice except near the thin edge, when advancing and retreating, and these are too inconsiderable to merit attention. It is obvious, upon consideration, that blocks detached from summits or from the sharp angles of out-jutting ledges or plateaus might suffer some glacial abrasion in the process of their dislodgment and transposition along the crest or projecting _angle, but that in general such abrasion would be small, and, in most cases, nearly or quite absent. The debris so incorpo- rated in the body of the ice would be, for the most part, angu- lar, and, as it was brought forward in the ice, it would probably suffer very little abrasion. If it continued to move forward in the plane in which it started, descending only so much as the bottom wastage of the ice required, it would be brought out to the terminal slope of the ice sheet by virtue of the melting away of the ice above, and thence it would be carried on down the terminal slope as superglacial debris, and dropped at the frontal edge. If this be the true and full history, there would be no commingling of this englacial matter with the subglacial debris. It is evident that the englacial matter brought forward from the crest of one prominence would be intermingled with that brought forward from other prominences lying in a line with it, or lying so near it that the lateral spreading of the debris would lead to commingling. It is also clear that varia- tions in the direction of currents would tend to the same result, so that englacial matter from different prominences of the same general region might be commingled. So also englacial material, by crevassing and by the descent of streams from the surface to the base, would be carried down to the bottom and mingled with the subglacial debris. So also blocks broken away from the base of the prominence which yielded the englacial erratics might be moved forward along the bottom parallel with the englacial material above, and lodged at any point along the line. It is therefore to be expected that the basal deposits will con- tain the same rock species as the englacial, but if there be no 50 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. process by which the basal material is carried upward the reverse will not be the case, and there will be a clear distinction between the englacial deposit and the subglacial deposit, in composition as well as physical state. Not a few glacialists, however, advocate in somewhat differ- ing forms and phases the doctrine that basal material is carried upward into the body of the glacier and at length reaches the surface, and that at the extremity of the ice this is commingled with any erratics that may be englacial or superglacial by original derivation. This doctrine appears to have had its origin in the endeavor to explain the very common fact that glacial drift has been carried from lower to higher altitudes. Erratics are often found lodged several hundred feet higher than the outcrop from which they were derived. It has never seemed to me, however, that this phenomenon necessarily was different in kind from that which takes place in the bottom of every stream; at least I have not come in contact with any instances that seemed to require a different explanation, except those connected with kames and eskers that require a special explanation in any case. We are so accustomed to view streams from above, and so accustomed to study the extinct glaciers from the bottom, that we are liable to overlook the community of some of the simpler processes involved alike in both phenomena. The dictum that water never runs up hill is measurably true of the surface currents of the ice as well as water, but it altogether fails when applied to the basal currents of either. It is probable that there is no natural stream of any length in which, at some part of its course, basal debris is not carried from lower to higher altitudes and lodged there. If the bed of any stream were made dry and the debris in it critically examined, it would be found that at numerous points the silts or sands or gravels had been carried from the bottom of some basin in its bed to the higher rim or bar or reef that bordered it on the down- stream side. So I conceive that, on a grander scale, the natural result of the flow of the basal ice of a continental glacier over the inequalities of the country was the lifting of material from \ \ ENGLACIAL DRIFT OF THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN. 51 some of the lower horizons and its lodgment on the crests of ridges or the slopes or summits of mountains that lay athwart its course. So again, it is certain that a considerable part of the periph- eral drainage of glaciers takes place through tunnels beneath the ice. It is reasonable to suppose that during the winter season, when the drainage is slack, these tunnels tend to collapse in greater or less degree, under the continued pressure of the ice and the “‘fattening”’ of the glacier, so that in the early part of the next melting season the contracted tunnels may be over- flooded by glacial waters. To the extent that these tunnels become incompetent the water would become ponded back in the crevasses and moulins by which the surface-water gains access to them. They thus come to have something of the force of water flowing in tubes, and may be presumed to be capable of forcing rounded material to some considerable height, and of carrying ice-imbedded boulders to any point reached by the stream. These tunnels probably undulate with the bottom, and lodgment along them takes place wherever enlargement permits. Without, therefore, appealing to any upward cross currents within the ice itself, it is possible to explain the transportation of the drift from lower to higher altitudes. I have never seen phenomena of this kind that seemed to call for any other ex- planation than these. I am not prepared to say that there are no such phenomena. One of the purposes of this article will have been accomplished, if it shall call forth a critical statement of phenomena that require the assumption of internal upward movements of the ice to account for them, and of the criteria which distinguish such phenomena from those that may be referred to upward basal movements such as are common to all streams or to the exceptionally conditioned subglacial streams. That there are upward internal movements in most streams is as much beyond question as the existence of upward basal currents in rivers and glaciers, but they are dependent chiefly upon the velocity of the current and the irregularity of the bottom. 52 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. Theoretically, as I understand, a stream moving in a straight course on a perfectly smooth bottom would not develop an upward cross current. Each lower layer would move slower than that above it by reason of basal friction, but they would move on in parallel lines. But if irregularity of bottom be introduced the parallelism is obviously destroyed, and if the velocity be high so that the momentum of the particles becomes great relative to their cohesion, irregular internal movements will result, and these will often be of a rotary nature in vertical planes bringing the basal parts of the fluid to the surface or the reverse. For this reason rapid streams abound in rotary currents, while slow streams do not. Now it is quite obvious that a stream of water moving at a rate of three or four feet per day, or even fifty or sixty feet per day, would not develop perceptible upward currents, and certainly would not lift the lightest silt from its bottom. I do not think there are any theoretical grounds for believing that internal glacial currents are developed, which flow from base to surface, carrying bottom debris to the top. One of the most remarkable expressions of the drift “phenomena of the Upper Mississippi region consists of belts of boulders stretching for great distances over the face of the country, and disposing themselves in great loops after the fashion of the terminal moraines of the region with which they are intimately connected. Besides this, there are numerous patches of boulders of more or less irregular form and uncertain relations. The whole of these have not been studied in detail, but a sufficient portion of them have received careful examina- tion to justify the drawing of certain conclusions from them. Those which have been most studied lie in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa and Dakota. ihosevoresune first three States have been most carefully traced and their con- stitution is such as to give them the greatest discriminative value. To these our discussion will be limited chiefly.” Parts of these tracts were long since described by Bradley of the Illinois Survey. (Geol. Surv. Ill., Vol. IV. p. 227). Collet of the Indiana Survey (An. Rep. 1875, EN GEA CLALL PLEA NOM TALES SES SLPL BASIN: 53 Emerging from the dunes at a point north of the Iroquois river in Jasper county, northwestern Indiana, a well characterized belt of surface boulders stretches westward to the State line, just beyond which it curves about to the south and then -to the east, and re-enters Indiana a little south of the northwest corner of Benton county. It soon turn§ abruptly to the south and reaches the Wabash river near the centre of Warren county. The im- mediate valley of the Wabash is thickly strewn with boulders from the point where the belt reaches it to the vicinity of West Point on the western line of Tippecanoe county. The up- lands, however, do not give any clear indication of the con- tinuity of the belt, and the connection is not altogether certain. There is an inner well-marked belt that branches away from this in the central part of Benton county and runs southeasterly into the northwestern quarter of Tippecanoe county, beyond which only scattered boulders occur, which leaves its precise connections also in doubt. But starting from West Point, which is less than a dozen miles from the point where the two belts cease to be traceable with certainty, a well-defined belt, one or two miles wide, runs southeasterly across the southwestern corner of Tippecanoe county and the northeastern quarter of Mont- gomery county to the vicinity of Darlington, beyond which its connection is again obscure, although boulders occur frequently between this point and the northwestern corner of Brown county, where boulders are very abundant. So also, patches of exceptionally abundant boulders occur in the west central part of Clinton county. These may be entitled to be regarded asa connecting link between the train which enters northwestern Tippecanoe county and that of northwestern Boone county, as scattered boulders of the surface type, but of not very excep- tionally frequent occurrence, lie between them. However this may be, a belt of much more than usually frequent surface boulders stretches southeasterly to the vicinity of Indianapolis, p. 404) and Orton and Hussey cf the Ohio Survey (Geol. Sury. Ohio, Vol. III., pp. 412, 414 and 475). The relationship of these tracts to morainic lines and to each other I worked out some years since (Third An. Rep. U.S. G.S. pp. 331, 332, 334) but I owe many details and some important additions to my associate, Mr. Leverett. 54 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. and probably connects with a very well-marked belt lying near the south line of the southeast quarter of Marion county and in the northeastern part of Johnson county. There is also a well- defined tract in southeastern Hendricks county, running east and west, without evident connection with the foregoing tracts, though it may be the equivalent of the Darlington belt. There is also a somewhat unusual aggregation in the form of irregular belts in southeastern Johnson county, in the vicinity of Nineveh, and in southern Shelby county. The belt south of Indianapolis is probably to be correlated by scattered boulders only slightly more abundant than those of the adjacent region, but of the surface type, stretching northeasterly to near the center of the west half of Henry county, where a well-marked belt again sets in. From this point the tract runs northeasterly nearly to the north limit of the county, where it turns 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 south- easterly 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 toa northeasterly course, and crossing the great Miami river, a few miles above Dayton, holds its northeast course across the south- eastern part of Miami county, the northwestern part of Cham- paign 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 south- eastern corner of Stark county, and very generally along the great interlobate moraines, lying parallel with the Eel river, VEIN CILIA CILAIL, YOVEA TAI MOV, ISEUE, WALES SUS SIU ZIA WEVAUST ONE er S'S 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 Ran- -dolph 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 1s 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. The relationship of these tracts to terminal moraines is very clear and specific. They constitute marginal phenomena of the ancient ice sheet. Their distribution completely excludes their reference to floating ice, for they not only undulate over the surface utterly negligent of any horizontal distribution, but they are disposed in loops in crossing the basins of the region, and the convexities of these loops are turned down stream. These basins for the most part open out in southerly or westerly directions which makes it improbable that ice - bearing bodies of water occu- pied them. But if this were not fatal, certainly the fact that the convexities of the boulder belts are turned down stream and cross the centers of the basins is precisely contrary to the distribution they must have assumed if they were due to floating ice in bodies of water occupying the basins. I hold it, therefore, to be beyond rational question that these tracts were deposited as we find them by the margins of the glacial lobes that invaded the region. 56 LATE J OOKINATE OL GEOL OGNE If these boulder belts were of the same nature as the average boulders of the till - sheets beneath them, then the simple fact of unusual aggregation might be plausibly referred to the accidents of gathering and deposition. But they are very clearly distin- guished from the average boulders of the till by several characteristics. 1. They are superficial. Sometimes they rest completely on the surface, sometimes they are very slightly imbedded, some- times half buried, sometimes they protrude but a slight portion, and sometimes they are entirely concealed, but lie immediately at the surface. In all cases the aggregation is distinctly super- ficial. Where they are buried, the burying material is usually of different texture and composition from the subjacent till, and appears to be distinct in origin from it. The superficiality of the tract is very obvious almost everywhere, and is especially so in regions where the subjacent till is of the pebble - clay rather than boulder - clay order, for the comparative absence of bould- ers below emphasizes the contrast. Throughout most of the region the subjacent till is not of a very bouldery type, so that the distinction is generally a marked one. 2. The boulders of the belts are almost without exception derivatives from the crystalline terranes of Canada. Those of the great tract especially under consideration were derived from the typical Huronian rocks of the region north of Lake Huron, and from granitic and gneissoid rocks referable to the Lauren- tian series of the same region. These last, however, cannot be sharply distinguished from the granitic rocks derived from other parts of the Laurentian terrane. The Huronian rocks are very easily identified because of the peculiarities of some of the species. Among these the one most conspicuously characterized is a quartz-and-jasper conglomerate. The matrix is usually a whitish quartzite. This is studded with pebbles of typical red jasper and of duller rocks of jasperoid nature, which grade thence into typical quartzite pebbles. With these are mingled crystalline pebbles of other varieties. Another peculiar erratic comes from the “slate conglomerate”’ of Logan. It consists of ENGLA CLA DME NO, LEE MLS SUS SEL BA SLING = 257, a slaty matrix through which are scattered rather distantly pebbles of granitic, quartzitic and other crystalline rocks. This is one of the forms of the “basal conglomerate” of Irving. Other varieties of this ““basal conglomerate” are present. In addition to these very peculiar rocks, a quartzite of a very light greenish semi - translucent hue has a wide distribution along the tract. It is readily distinguishable from the numerous other quartzites of the drift of the interior. Some years since, on returning from my first field examination of a portion of this belt, I sent a typical series of chips from the characteristic erratics to Professor Irving, who had recently returned from the study of the original Huronian region. He returned a suite of chippings that matched them perfectly throughout, all of which were taken 2” sz¢u in the region north of Lake Huron. Among the boulders of the belt are occasionally found spec- imens of impure limestone or of limy sandstone that might per- haps be referred doubtfully to some member of the paleozoic series ; but on the other hand, might with equal or greater prob- ability perhaps be referred to the similar rocks of the Huronian series. These are quite rare, never forming, so far as my ObseKnvations fo, aS) much as. one sper icent: of) the /senes: in the several definite enumerations made to determine the percentage of the doubtful specimens, the result never exceeded a fraction of one per cent. In the most extensive enumeration the result was about one-half of one per cent. Aside from these doubtful specimens there are practically no boulders in the belts that can be referred to any of the pale- ozoic rocks that intervene in the 500 miles between the parent series north of Lake Huron and the tract over which the bould- ers are now strewn. Occasionally there may be seen erratics from the paleozoic series at or near the surface, but they are not usually so disposed on the surface as to appear to be true mem- bers of the superficial boulder tract. There is, therefore, the amplest ground for the assertion that these boulder tracts are of distant derivation, and that they are essentially uncommingled with derivatives from the intermediate region. 58 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. 3. The boulders of this series are much more angular than those of the typical till sheets. Some of them, indeed, are rounded, but the rounding is generally of the type which bould- ers derived by surface degradation and exfoliation present. They rarely have the forms that are distinctively glacial. Quite a large percentage are notably angular, and have neither suffered glacial rounding nor spherical exfoliation. Some few are gla- cially worn and scratched, but the percentage of these is small. The tracts therefore present these four salient characteris- tics: (1) the boulders are derived from distant crystalline terranes (400 to 500 miles) and are essentially uncommingled with rock from the intervening paleozoic terranes ; (2) they are essentially superficial, and the associated earthy material has a texture differing from that of the subglacial tills ; (3) they are notably angular and free from glacial abrasion, except in minor degree ; (4) the tracts are so associated with terminal moraines and so related to the topography of the region, that there is no rational ground for doubt that the boulders were borne to their present places by the glaciers that produced the correlative moraines. In contrast to these superficial boulder formations, the till sheets below are made up of a very large percentage of glacial clay whose constitution shows that it was produced in part by the grinding down of the paleozoic series. In this are imbedded boulders and pebbles that were derived from the paleozoic series as indicated by their petrological character, and, in many instances, demonstrated by contained fossils. While a small part of the boulders contained in the till are angular or but slightly worn, the larger part are blunted, bruised, scratched and polished by typical glacial action. This obvious grinding of the boulders, taken in connection with the clay product resulting from the grinding, affords a clear demonstration that the deposit was produced at the base of the ice by its pushing, dragging, rolling action. The two formations, therefore, stand in sharp contrast; the ENGLACIAL DRIFT OF THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN. 59 one indicating the passive transporting action of the ice in bearing from their distant homes north of the lakes the crystal- line boulders and dropping them quietly on the surface, the other indicating the active dynamic function of the ice in rubbing, bruising and scoring the material at its base. The one seems to me a clear instance of englacial and superglacial trans- portation; the other an equally clear example of subglacial push, drag and kneading. Now if it were the habit of an ice-sheet of this kind to carry material from its bottom to the surface by internal movement, it would seem that the distance of 400 to 500 miles which intervened between the source of the crystallines and the place of their deposit would have furnished ample opportunity for its exercise, and that there would have been commingled with the englacial and superglacial material many derivatives from the intermediate region, and these derivatives should have borne the characteristic markings received by them while at the base of the ice. The very conspicuous absence of such commingling, and the absence or phenomenal rarity of anything that even looks like such a commingling, appears to me to testify in quite unmistakable terms to the distinctness of the methods of transportation. In view of the great territory over which this particular belt is spread, and the greater territory which is embraced in the other tracts not here specially considered, there is left little ground for doubt that this distinctness of englacial from basal transpor-_ tation was a prevailing fact and not an exceptional one. This is supported by concurrent evidence derived from the territory west of Lake Michigan. This territory unfortunately does not bear erratics that have equally distinct characteristics, but, so far as my observation goes, the phenomena arealike throughout. I am there- fore brought to the conclusion that, in the interior at least, there was no habitual lifting of boulders from the base of the ice sheets to the surface, nor any habitual commingling of basal with engla- cial and superglacial material, except, of course, as it took place by virtue of the falling of the latter through crevasses to the base, and by mechanical intermixture of the two at the edge of the ice. 60 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. The amount of englacial till under this view is little more than that which was lodged in the body of the ice in its passage over the knobs and ridges of the hilly and semi-mountainous regions of the north. To this is perhaps to be added occasional derivatives from the more abrupt prominences of the paleozoic region and the superficial dust blown upon the ice from the surrounding land, which was probably the chief source of the silty material intermingled with the superficial boulders. The total amount is thus quite small, though important in its sig- nificance The eskers and kames of the region are made up of deriva- tives from the basal material as shown by (1) the local origin of the material in large part, (2) the mechanical origin of the sands and silts, (3) the not infrequent glacial markings of the pebbles and boulders, and (4) the disturbed stratification of the beds. If I am correct in respect to the kind and amount of the englacial and superglacial material, it is obvious that eskers and kames, such as are found in the interior, could not be derived from englacial or superglacial sources. The term englacial as here used does not include such materials as may be lodged in the basal stratum of the ice and brought down to the actual bottom by basal melting. The conclusions drawn from the phenomena of the plains of the interior are not necessarily applicable to more hilly or mountainous regions. T. C. CHAMBERLIN. *See “Hillocks of Angular Gravel and Disturbed Stratification,” Am. Jour. Sci. Vol. XXVII., May 1884, pp. 378-390. SZODIES FOR S FUDENTS, DUSKINCis GEeAC TA PEOCHS AND aah "CRI bh RVA BOK Te Bik kp COGNMION: I. INTRODUCTION. Ir has long been evident that writers on glacial geology are not at one concerning some of the important questions which underlie the interpretation of the history of the glacial period. Certain recent publications have served to emphasize the differ- ences between them. There are two questions, at least, concern- -ing which there must be agreement, or at any rate a common understanding, before existing differences can be eliminated or justly evaluated. When the answers to these questions have been agreed upon, or when the positions of the contending par- ties are clearly understood, it may be found that some of the apparent antagonisms have no better basis than differences in definition. Stated interrogatively, the two questions referred to are these: 1. What constitutes a glacial epoch as distinct from other glacial epochs ? and 2. Whatare the criteria for the recog- nition of distinct glacial epochs, if such there were? II. Tue IpEA or a GuacrAL Epocu. It is conceivable that, after the development and extension of a continental ice-sheet, it might be wholly wasted away. The maximum extension of such an ice-sheet would mark the culmination of a glacial epoch. If subsequently another ice- sheet of considerable dimensions were accumulated, its develop- ment and extension would constitute a second glacial epoch. These successive ice-sheets might be so related to each other in ‘Read before the American Geological Society at Ottawa, Dec., 1892. 61 \ 62 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. time, in position, and in the sequence of geological events, as to be regarded as separate epochs of the same glacial period." On the other hand they might be so widely separated from each other in time, in position, and in the sequence of geological events, as to make their reference to separate glacial periods more appropriate. In any case their separation would be suffi- ciently marked to necessitate their reference to separate ice epochs. So far we believe there would be no disagreement. If, instead of entirely disappearing, the first ice-sheet suffered great reduction of volume and area, and if this reduction were followed by a second great expansion of the ice, might the time of such expansion be regarded as a second glacial epoch of the common glacial period? To this question, too, as thus stated, we apprehend there would be but one answer, and that affir- mative. It seems certain that the edge of the continental ice-sheet was subject to more or less extensive oscillations, as are the ends of glaciers and the edges of ice-sheets to-day. How much of an oscillation is necessary, and under what attendant conditions must it take place, in order that the recession of the ice-edge shall mark an interglacial and its readvance a distinct glacial epoch? When the question takes this specific form, and when inquiry is made concerning the quantitative value of the differ- ent elements entering into the problem, we reach the battled ground. It is the battled ground, partly because it is the ground of misunderstanding. It is the ground of misunderstanding, partly because glacialists are not agreed as to the meaning of certain terms in common use by them. Four elements seem to enter into the idea of an ice epoch as distinct from other ice epochs. These are (1) the distance to which the ice retreated between successive advances; (2) the duration of the retreat, or the time which elapsed between suc- cessive ice extensions; (3) the temperature of the region freed from ice during the time between maxima of advance; and (4) «The terms period and epoch are here used in the sense in which they have been used most commonly in the literature of glacial geology in the United States. DISTINCT: GLACIAL EPOGHS. 63 the intervention between successive advances, of changes inter- rupting the continuity of geological processes. (1.) It would be arbitrary to name any definite distance to which the ice must recede in order to constitute its re-advance a distinct ice epoch. It would be not so much a question of miles as a question of proportions. Considering this point alone, we presume it would be agreed that an ice-sheet should have suffered the loss of a very considerable proportion of its mass, and that it should have dwindled to proportions very much less than those subsequently attained, before its re-advance could properly be called a separate glacial epoch. To be specific, if the North American ice-sheet, after its maximum extension, retreated so far as to free the whole of the United States from ice, we should be inclined to regard a re-advance as marking a distinct ice epoch of the same glacial period, if in such re-advance the ice reached an extension comparable with that of the earlier ice-sheet. Especially should we be inclined to refer the second ice advance to a second glacial epoch, if it, as well as the pre- ceding retreat, were accompanied by favoring phases of some or all the other three elements entering into the notion of a glacial epoch. In this statement we do not overlook the fact that a northerly region—as Labrador or Greenland—might be continuously cov- ered with ice throughout the time of the two glaciations of the more southerly regions. But this is not regarded as a sufficient reason for discarding the notion of duality. Greenland has very likely been experiencing continuous glaciation since a time antedating that of our first glacial deposits. The renewal to-day of glaciation comparable in extent to that of the glacial period would certainly be regarded as a distinct glacial epoch, if not a distinct glacial period, even though Greenland’s glaciation may not have been interrupted. Scandinavia and Switzerland have probably not been freed from ice since the glacial period. Their snow and ice fields are probably the direct descendants of the ice fields of the glacial period. An expansion of the existing bodies of ice in these countries to their former dimensions, would constitute a new glacial epoch, if not a new glacial period. 64 - THE JOURNAL OF “GEOLOGY. Analogous subdivisions in pre-Pleistocene formations have been frequently recognized. (2) The application of the time element is hardly sus- ceptible of quantitative statement. Weare inclined to think that it would be generally agreed that, with a given amount of reces- sion of the ice, its re-advance would be more properly regarded as a distinct glacial epoch if the interval which had elapsed since the first advance were long. Whether a longer time between the separate advances might reduce the amount of recession necessary in order to constitute the second advance a second epoch, we are not prepared to assert; but we are inclined to think it might. (3) The third element is perhaps somewhat more tangible than the second. If, during the retreat of the ice, the climate of a region which was twice glaciated became as temperate as that of the present day in the same locality, we should be inclined to regard the preceding and succeeding glaciations as distinct ice epochs, especially if the intervening recession were great and its duration long. Unfortunately for simplicity and ease of determination, there are difficulties in determining with precision how far the ice retreated between successive maxima of advance, how long the interval during which it remained in retreat, and the extent to which the climate was ameliorated, as compared with that which went before and that which followed. (4) If changes of any sort which interrupt the continuity of geological processes intervened between successive maxima of advance of the ice, the separation of the later advance from the earlier, as a distinct ice epoch, would be favored. How great the intervening changes should be in order to constitute the re-advance a distinct ice epoch, is a_ point concerning which there might be difference of opinion. But it is altogether possible that such changes might intervene as alone to give sufficient basis for the separation. Orographic movements, resulting either in continental changes of altitude or attitude are among the events which might come in to separate one ice DPE STINCTAGEAMCLAL TEPOCHS. 65 epoch from another. Changes of this sort have often furnished the basis for the major and minor divisions of time in other parts of. geological history, so that there can be no question as to their adequacy, if they were of sufficient magnitude. We hold that the intervention of orographic or other important geo- logic changes might reduce to a minimum the amount of reces- sion, the duration of the recession, and the warmth of the inter- vening climate necessary to constitute the separate ice advances separate ice epochs. The absence of great orographic or other changes in glaciated regions between successive advances of the ice would be no proof that such advances should not be regarded as separate epochs. Divisions of equal importance have often been made without evidence of such changes. From the foregoing discussion, brief as it is, it will be seen that within certain narrow limits the definition of a glacial epoch, as distinct from other glacial epochs, must be more or less arbitrary. It is less important that an arbitrary definition should be accepted, than that the same meaning should be attached to technical terms in common use among geologists. In the interest of harmony and of a common understanding, and without the violation of any truth of science, we believe it would be well if the conception of a glacial epoch, as framed by those who are our leaders in position and in fact, were made the basis for our usage of the term. Ii]. Tse Crireria or Distincr GuaciaL Epocus. If there have been differences of opinion concerning the nature of ice epochs, as distinct from each other and from ice periods, there has been a failure to adequately apprehend the nature, the extent, and the meaning of the real criteria on which the final recognition of separate ice epochs, if such there were, must be based. Such criteria are several in number. They are of unequal value. In some instances a single one of them might be quite sufficient to establish the fact of two ice epochs. In other cases, single criteria which might not be in themselves demonstra- 66 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. tive, have great corroborative weight, when found in association with others. In all cases, much discretion much be used in the interpretation of these criteria. They may be enumerated under several specific heads. (1) Forest Beds. Beds of vegetal deposits or old soils are frequently found between layers of glacial drift. This is one of the criteria most commonly cited, because it is of common occur- rence and easy of recognition. The advocates of the unity of the glacial period maintain that such beds of organic matter might become interbedded with morainic debris during minor oscillations of the ice’s edge. The phenomena of existing gla- ciers make it evident that forest beds or soils might be enclosed by the deposits of an oscillating ice edge. By repeated oscilla- tions of the ice’s edge during the general retreat of the ice, such vegetal beds might become interstratified with glacial drift more or less frequently over all the area once covered by the ice, and from which it has now disappeared. The mere presence of vege- table material between beds of drift is therefore no proof of dis- tinct ice epochs. This does not destroy the value of the vege- tal beds as a criterion for the recognition of distinct ice epochs, but it makes caution necessary in its application. It does not follow that, since sosme inter-drift forest-beds do not prove inter- glacial epochs, none do. The question is not how forest-beds might originate, but how existing forest-beds did originate. Where the plant-remains found in the relations indicated are so well preserved as to make identification of the species possi- ble, we have a means of determining, with some degree of accuracy, the climatic conditions which must have obtained at the place where the plants grew during the time of their life. If these interbedded plant-remains are of such a character as to indicate a temperate climate, we can not suppose that they grew at the immediate edge of the ice, and therefore that they were buried beneath its oscillating margin. To be specific, if the inter-drift plant remains in any given locality of the area once covered by ice are such as to indicate a climate as warm as the present in the same locality, the ice must have receded so far to DESTINCD, GEACTALET EROCTS. 67 the northward that its re-advance might,in our judgment, appro- priately be regarded as a separate ice epoch. It has been suggested in opposition that temperate condi- tions may obtain even up to the edge of the ice, and that inter- bedded vegetal remains indicating temperate climate do not prove any considerable recession of the ice. The phenomena about existing glaciers have been appealed to in support of this demurrer. But the objection is not well taken. The climatic conditions which obtain about the borders of small, local glaciers, are not a safe guide as to climatic conditions which obtained about the margin of a continental ice-sheet, any more than the climatic conditions which obtain about a small inland lake are a safe criterion as to the climatic conditions about a sea-coast. The general principles of climatology, as well as specific facts con- cerning plant distribution, seem to us to indicate that the climate about the border of a continental ice-sheet must have been arctic. It is evident that the greater the distance north of the over- lying drift remains of temperate plants are found, the more con- clusive becomes the evidence. Plant remains indicating tem- perate climate at the very margin of the drift sheet which over- lies them, would be less conclusive than similar evidences one hundred miles to the northward. It might be difficult to prove in any given instance that the ice which deposited the drift over- lying plant remains advanced one hundred miles, or any other specific distance, south of any particular underlying forest bed. If the forest bed were continuous for the whole distance, the case would be clear. It would also be conclusive if the con- tinuity of the drift overlying a forest bed at any point with that of a remote point to the south, could be demonstrated. Inspite of these difficulties in its application, the vegetal beds constitute a valuable criterion in making the discriminations under consid- eration, when they are properly applied. Under proper circum- stances the criterion may be conclusive when taken alone, and it may have corroborative significance when not itself conclusive. The absence of forest beds and of all traces of vegetal deposits whatsoever between beds of drift, is no proof of the absence of 68 THE JOUKNALE OF GHEOLOGN, recurrent ice epochs, since the second advance of the ice might have destroyed all trace of the preéxistent soil and its vegetal life. It is always possible, too, that such beds exist, even if they have not been discovered. It would have been anticipated that they would not be abundant, or wide spread. The absence of forest beds is therefore at best no more than negative evidence. (2) Remains of Land Animals. Bones of mammalia or remains of other land animals, occurring in relations similar to those in which forest beds occur, may have a like significance. Their value as a criterion of separate glacial epochs is subject to essentially the same limitations as forest beds. (3) Lnorganic Products formed during a time of Ice Recession. The recession of the ice after a maximum of advance would leave a land surface more or less affected with marshes and ponds. In such situations, bog iron ore might accumulate, if conditions were favorable. Such ore beds, buried by the drift of a later ice advance, would have a significance comparable to that of forest beds, except that they would give less definite informa- tion as to climate, and would be correspondingly less trustworthy. Should such ore beds be found in such relations as to prove that the underlying and overlying bodies of drift were deposited by ice sheets which extended great distances further south, their signifi- cance would be enhanced. From the thickness of the ore beds some inference might be drawn as to the length of time con- cerned in their accumulation. But because of the variable rate at which bog ore may accumulate, such inference should be used with caution. Concretions of iron oxide might be formed in the marshes or in ill-drained drift areas where accumulations of greater extent were not made. A subsequent incursion of the ice might incor- porate these nodules with its drift, wearing and striating them as other stones, and depositing them as constituent parts of the later drift. Such iron nodules in the later drift would mean a recession and re-advance of the ice with some considerable inter- val between, although not necessarily an interval sufficiently DUESTMUNCINGLACTAT, 2 POGHS: 69 warm or long to be regarded as an interglacial epoch.t Cal- careous concretions, like those of the loess, would possess a like significance, in like relations. While in themselves these inor- ganic products of a time of ice recession might fail to be con- clusive of separate ice epochs, they might have much corrobo- rative significance when associated with other phenomena. An inter-till iron ore bed, associated with a forest bed which indi- cated a warm climate, would be most significant. The absence of knowledge of ore beds between sheets of till, and the absence from an upper bed of till of concretions of iron and lime carbonate formed during a recession of the ice, would be no proof that interglacial epochs did not occur. These products were probably formed in relatively few localities. They stood good chance of destruction at the hands of the returning ice, and they may exist, where they have not been discovered, or where their significance has not been understood. Their absence is at best no more than negative evidence. (4) Beds of Marine and Lacustrine Origin. Vf between beds of glacial drift there be found beds of lacustrine or of marine origin, such beds would indicate a recession of the ice during their time of deposition. Their position would be a minimum measure of ice recession. If such lacustrine beds contain organic remains, they will bear testimony concerning the climatic conditions which existed where they occur, at the time of their deposition. If the fossils in such beds denote a temperate cli- mate, or a climate as mild as that of the present day in the same region, the ice must have receded so far to the northward as, in our judgment, to constitute its re-advance a distinct ice epoch. This line of argument may be even stronger than that drawn from remains of terrestrial life, since the ice would probably affect the temperature of the sea to greater distances than that of the land, and affect it to a greater degree within a given distance. The argument becomes stronger the further north the inter-drift marine and lacustrine deposits occur, since the ice must always *This point concerning iron nodules was suggested to the writer by Mr. W. J. McGee. 70 WHE JOOKNAL IOP NGHOLO GY: have receded to a position still further north. If marine or lacustrine beds lying far north of the later ice limit contain proof of temperate climate, the argument becomes conclusive. The absence of marine and lacustrine deposits between beds of drift, would be no proof that interglacial epochs. did not occur. Lacustrine beds could be made only where there were lakes, and lakes would be the exception rather than the rule. Marine beds in similar positions would rarely be known, except where a definite succession of changes of level has taken place. Both classes of deposits, if once formed, would be subject to destruction by the over-riding ice of a later epoch, if such there were. Neither would be likely to be preserved at all points where formed, and both may exist at many points where their existence is not known. The absence of these beds is at best no more than negative evidence. (5) Beds of Subaérial Gravel, Sand and Silt, Layers of stratified drift between layers of ground moraine, are of common occurrence in many regions. Under ordinary conditions their existence is not regarded as evidence that the underlying and overlying tills are to be referred to separate ice epochs. But it is conceivable that beds of stratified drift may, under the proper circumstances and relations, be strong evidence of separate ice epochs. The last stages of ice work in the glacial period were accompanied, in many regions, by the deposition upon adjacent land surfaces, of extensive bodies of gravel and sand, washed on beyond the ice by waters issuing from it. Except in valleys through which strong currents coursed, such deposits were apparently not car- ried far beyond the edge of the ice. But as the edge of the ice withdrew to the northward, sand plains may have extended themselves in the same direction, by additions to their ice-ward faces. It is conceivable that the process of subaérial plain building at the edge of a receding phase of ice, might be carried so far under favorable circumstances, as to result in the construction of plains‘ of great extent. In this event, a subse- quent ice-advance might overspread such plains in such wise as to bury, without destroying them, though such a course of DISTINCT GLACIAL EPOCHS. 71 ’ events would certainly be exceptional. In order to constitute the inter-stratified gravel and sand evidence of separate ice- epochs, its continuity for great distances between beds of till, and in the direction of ice movement, would need to be demon- strated. In themselves, these beds,- under the conditions indicated, would simply be a minimum measure of the amount of ice recession between the deposition of the underlying and overlying bodies of till. It is hardly likely, though possible, that the continuity of inter-bedded gravel and sand could be proved for a sufficient distance north of the southern limit of the less extensive bed of ground moraine, to alone constitute evidence of a recession of ice great enough to make it necessary to refer its re-advance toa new epoch. Beds of silt in like relations, deposited by waters beyond the edge of the ice, would have a like significance so far as the question here under consid- eration is concerned. Such beds of stratified drift might some- times have corroborative value when their testimony, taken by itself, is inconclusive. If, for example, their surfaces are marked by forest beds, and especially by forest beds whose plants denote a warm climate, the association becomes most significant. In view of what has been said, it is evident that the absence of beds of subaérially stratified silt, sand, and gravel, between beds of till can not be brought in evidence against separate ice epochs. It would rarely be true that topographic and hydro- graphic conditions would make possible the construction of plains of sufficient extent to serve as criteria for the purpose here indicated, and few of those formed would escape such a degree of destruction as to leave them demonstrably continuous. There is also the further possibility that such beds exist, even though their continuity be not known. To prove the contin- uity of a buried bed of stratified and incoherent drift, even if it existed, would be a most difficult task. (6) Differential Weathering. If, after covering a given region, the ice retreated, the drift which it left in the area which it previously covered would be subject to oxidation, leaching and disintegration. The depth to which this oxidation, leaching \ WZ. LTTE] OD CRIA LE SOLA GAROIROGN A and disintegration would extend, would be dependent upon the- length of time during which the drift was exposed, and upon the climate which affected the region during its exposure. The longer the exposure and the warmer the climate, the deeper would the weathering extend. If, subsequently, the ice extended over the same region, it might, in some places, override and bury the old surface without destroying it. The earlier oxidized and leached drift would thus come to be buried by the newer, un- oxidized, unleached drift. If, therefore, beneath the newer drift of any given locality there be found a lower drift, the surface of which is oxidized and leached to a considerable depth, the evi- dence is strong that the lower drift was exposed for a long period of time before the upper drift was deposited upon it. Within certain limits a similar result might be brought about, it is true, if the ice, after having reached a certain maximum stage of ad- vance, were to retreat for a short distance only and there remain for a very long period of time. A subsequent minor advance might bury the oxidized surface of the drift beyond the posi- tion of the long ice-halt. Under these conditions, the climate which would have obtained in the area of the drift exposed during the minor retreat would have been cold, and oxidation, leaching, and disintegration would have proceeded slowly. If they reached considerable depths, the time involved must have been very long. If this surface of oxidized and leached and disintegrated drift were found to reach far to the northward beneath the layer of newer and upper drift, it would indicate a great recession of the ice. We maintain that if it were found sufficiently far north of the margin of the overlying drift, and if its depth were suffi- ciently great, extending well down below any possible accumula- tion of superglacial till, it might be a positive criterion of so great a recession of the ice, protracted through so great an interval of time, as to constitute its new advance a separate ice epoch. There is much reason to believe that the soil developed under the influence of a warm climate differs in some respects from one developed from similar material under other conditions. The well-known fact that red and reddish soils are especially DISTINCT GLACIAL EPOCHS. 73 characteristic of low latitudes and warm climates is significant. If therefore a soil developed on the surface of one sheet of drift and buried by another, be found to possess, in addition to unmis- takable marks of long exposure, the peculiar marks which seem to be characteristic of soils developed under high temperatures, the argument gains in strength. This argument from oxidation and weathering has another application. If in a later advance, following a protracted reces- sion, the ice-sheet failed to reach the limit of its earlier advance, there would remain an area of drift deposited by the first ice - sheet, outside the drift deposited by the later. Now if the time interval between these two advances was great, and especially if during this interval the climate was mild, the oxidation and weathering of the older drift surface would be markedly different in degree from that of the newer. If, under these circumstances, the surface of the older sheet were found to be weathered and oxidized and reddened up to the border of the newer drift sheet, and if here there were found to be a sudden change in the charac- ter of the surface of the drift so far as depth and degree of oxidization and weathering is concerned, we should have strong evidence that the one sheet of drift was much older than the other. The statement sometimes urged that the drift which was deposited near the edge of the greatest ice advance would be largely made up of the residual materials which occupied the surface invaded by the ice, would not meet the case. For if it be granted that this statement is qualitatively good, we should find the greatest degree of weathering and oxidation at the extreme margin of the drift, and it should be found to be less and less on receding from this margin. There would in this case be no sudden transition from a deeply weathered and oxidized surface, to one which is fresh and unoxidized, along a definite line. We maintain that if the whole of the drift deposits are referable to one epoch, there should be no sudden transition in the surface of the drift from that which is deeply weathered to that which is not, the one surface being separated from the other by a defi- nite and readily traceable line. 74 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. It has been urged against the criterion of differential weath- ering that superglacial material is or may be thoroughly oxidized before. its deposition, and that a layer of oxidized drift between layers of till may be no more than superglacial debris deposited during a minor recession of the ice.* We believe that this attempt to eliminate the value of this criterion rests partly on an exaggerated idea concerning the amount of superglacial material, but more especially on a failure to apprehend the real meaning of the argument for the validity of the criterion, and upon a failure to note the limitations imposed upon it by its advocates. It is not affirmed that a layer of oxidized drift between beds of unoxidized drift is fer se proof of two glacial epochs; but it is affirmed that if such layer of weathered drift can be shown to extend far below any possible superglacial till, into the sub- glacial till below, in such wise as to indicate that it is the result of subaérial exposure in a warm climate subsequent to its deposition and prior to the deposition of the overlying till, it constitutes the best possible evidence of an interglacial epoch, especially when accompanied by the corroborative testimony of other criteria. It is further affirmed that if the second sheet of drift failed to reach the limit of the first, and if the drift which was deposited by the first and never covered by the second ice- sheet, is more thoroughly and more deeply weathered than that deposited by the second, and especially if the two types of drift surface meet along a definite and readily traceable line, the argu- ment becomes, in our judgment, irrefragable. In its application, this criterion would be infallible only in the hands of one who could distinguish between superglacial and superglacially oxidized material on the one hand, and material subaérially weathered after its deposition, on the other. In circumstances and relations where the weathering of the drift is not in itself conclusive, it might still have corrobora- tive value in association with other lines of evidence. The absence of an oxidized and disintegrated zone of drift * This point was urged at the reading of the paper at Ottawa, by Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, Mr. Upham, and others. DISTINCT GEA CTAL EPOCEHS. 75 below a superficial layer which is not oxidized, would be no proof that there were not distinct ice epochs, since the ice of any later epoch, if such there were, might have planed off the sur- face of the drift left by its predecessor to the depth of the weathering. The preservation of such surfaces after a second ice invasion must be regarded as the exception rather than as the rule. There is always the possibility, too, that an oxidized and weathered zone marking the surface of an older drift sheet exists, where excavations have not opened full sections of drift to view. The absence of weathered zones of drift beneath the surface, or the absence of knowledge of their existence, is therefore at best no more than negative evidence. The absence of greater weathering of the drift outside the limit of the drift supposed to belong to a later epoch, would be positive evidence against the reference of the two sheets of drift concerned to different epochs. A specific part of the above line of evidence may be sepa- rately mentioned. One phase of weathering is the disintegration of boulders, and this is a point which can be readily applied even by those who are not geologists. If the boulders of one region are much more commonly disintegrated than those of another, and if the two regions are separated from each other by a well-marked boundary line, the inference lies close at hand that the boulders in the one case have been much longer exposed to disintegrating agencies than in the other. It is no answer to this argument to say that the materials lying at the very front of the drift deposits contain boulders which were derived from the disintegrated rock over which the ice has passed, and that they were therefore in a less firm state at the outset. In many cases these boulders have come from great distances, and com- ing from great distances they must have come in a firm and solid state, else they could not have suffered such extensive transportation, except indeed their position was superglacial throughout their whole journey. This argument has equal force when applied to the area covered by the two sheets of drift where two exist. If within the region of drift under investiga- 76 DHE JOURNAL OFIGEOLOG Y- tion we find a surface layer of greater or less depth, the boulders of which are hard and fresh, and if beneath this we find another layer of drift, the stony material of which is largely disintegrated, at least in its upper parts, we have good evidence that the surface bearing the disintegrated boulders was exposed for a considerable length of time before the deposition of the over- lying drift, which carries fresh boulders. Since the disintegration of boulders is only one phase of weathering, the limitations of this argument are identical with those already noted in connection with the general argument from differential weathering. (7) Differential Subaérial Erosion. If the drift deposited by one ice-sheet were to be exposed for a considerable interval of time, and if the ice in its subsequent advance failed to reach the limit of its first invasion, the two areas should show different amounts of subaérial erosion, since the one has been exposed to the action of air and water much longer than the other. The line which marks the limit of the later ice invasion should be the line of more or less sudden transition from an area without, where stream erosion has been greater, to an area within, where stream erosion has been less. The point here made can not be met by the suggestion that the greater erosion of the outer area was effected by the water issuing from the ice which had retreated to the position now marked by the border of the area of the lesser erosion. So far as we know, such waters would be depositing, not eroding. Furthermore, much of the erosion of the outer area would have such relation to drainage lines that waters issuing from the ice could never have reached the localities where it is shown. If the outer and older drift be found to have suffered ten times as much stream erosion as the inner and newer, it is fair to assume that it has been exposed something like ten times as long, if the conditions for erosion are equally favorable in the two regions. The argument has especial weight if it can be found that. beneath the newer drift the surface of the older is such as to indicate that it was deeply eroded before the newer DESTIN C LAGE A CLA LEAP OIGEES.. Te. was placed upon it. The argument is stronger the farther from the margin of the newer drift such erosion on the surface of the underlying older drift can be proved 'to have taken place. In other words, if, in addition to the greater surface erosion of the older drift sheet as now exposed outside the limit of the newer drift, we find a notable unconformity between the newer and the older drift, and especially if this unconformity lie far enough north of the margin of the newer drift, the argument becomes conclusive. When differential erosion and drift unconformities are not in themselves conclusive, they may have great corroborative value in conjunction with differential weathering, forest beds, or other indications of separate ice epochs. ; The absence of observable unconformity between sheets of drift would be no proof that there were not distinct and widely separated ice epochs, since the later ice invasion might have so far modified the surface which it transgressed, as to destroy all patent evidences of unconformity. It would have been antici- pated that distinct unconformities in the drift would be rare, even if there were distinct ice epochs, for the same reason that weathered zones and forest beds would be rare. But if the drift which lies outside a line supposed to mark the limit of a sheet of drift belonging to a later ice epoch, be not more eroded than that which lies within such line, the absence of greater erosion in the outer drift is positive evidence against the reference of the drift of the two areas to distinct ice epochs, if conditions for erosion in the two areas are equally favorable. (8) Valleys Excavated Between Successive Depositions of Drift. A closely related, but not identical, point may be found in the extent of the valley excavations which can be proved to have taken place between the deposition of the earlier and later drift. We do not refer to valleys excavated in the drift especially, but to those excavated in other formations as well. If it can be shown, for example, that after the deposition of an earlier drift sheet, and before the deposition of a later, valleys were exca- vated which extended not merely into the drift itself, but far 78 | RHE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY: beneath the drift into the underlying rock, these valleys would be conclusive evidence of a long interval between the deposition of the two bodies of drift. The argument is of especial force when such excavations in the rock beneath the drift can be shown to have taken place at great distances within the margin of the _ newer drift. For valleys in such situations imply that the ice had receded at least as far to the north as they lie, during the interval between the two drift depositions, and may be so sit- uated as to show that the ice had wholly left the drainage basin where they occur. . The absence of evidences of deep valley excavations in any given region during a supposed interglacial epoch, is no proof that such interval did not exist. The conditions may not have been everywhere favorable for erosion within the limits of any ~ narrowly circumscribed area, and the absence of interglacial valleys would be only negative evidence against an. interglacial epoch. The absence of such evidence everywhere would bear against the existence of an interglacial epoch of much duration in such wise as to be more than negative evidence. (9) Different Directions of Movement. If, after its maximum advance, the ice suffered merely a minor recession and then remained stationary, or nearly so, for a time, the general direc- tion of its movement in a subsequent advance would probably be essentially the same as in the earlier. But if, after its maxi- mum advance, the ice receded toa great distance, and especially if it entirely disappeared, a subsequent ice-sheet might have a very different direction of movement, since its center of accu- mulation and dispersion might be very different. It is con- ceivable that this center might shift during the history of a single ice-sheet. In this case there should be a gradual change in the direction of ice movement, not an abrupt one. If, there- fore, there be found one sheet of drift made by an ice move- ment in one direction, overlaid by another sheet of drift depos- ited by ice moving in a very different direction, with an abrupt transition between them, such drift sheets would be presumptive evidence of distinct ice epochs. An exception would need to DES TMINGPAGL A CHAT PO GES. 79 be made in the case of drift sheets along the margins of con- fluent or proximate ice lobes. In such cases, if the one lobe temporarily secured the advantage’ of the other, drift beds formed by movements from opposite directions might be found in vertical succession, without being evidence of separate ice epochs. It is no part of the purpose of this essay to point out the difficulties which might arise in the application of this criterion of diverse directions of ice movements. It is possible that gradual changes in the direction of movement might leave records which would seem to indicate abrupt changes instead. This possi- bility makes care necessary in the application of the criterion, but does not destroy its value. When not itself conclusive, this criterion may be so associated with differential weathering, dif- ferential erosion, forest beds, etc., that their combined testimony makes but: one conclusion possible. The absence of evidence of radically diverse directions of movement during the time of deposition of the various sheets of drift, would be no proof that there were not distinct epochs. In the first place, the movements of different epochs might be har- monious—a condition of things more probable than any other if the more common views of the causes of glaciation be correct. In the second place, if the movements were diverse, the deposits might still be so similar that their differentiation, when the one is buried, might not be easily made. In the third place, the later ice might have so far incorporated the older drift material with that which belonged more properly to it, as to have destroyed all definition between them. (10) The Superposition of Beds of Till of Different Physical Constitution. After the retreat of an ice-sheet, the surface of the country thus discovered would be largely mantled with drift. This drift would serve to protect the underlying rock from dis- integration. But where there was little or no drift, the rock sur- face would be subject to all the disrupting agencies which affect surface rocks. The same would be true of all rock surfaces bared. by subaérial erosion after the disappearance of the ice. 80 TE fOULNAL VOR GIOLOGNA Under these conditions, if a second sheet of ice invaded the region in question after it had been long exposed, it would find a surface prepared to yield large bowlders. The result would be the deposition of a new sheet of drift containing bowlders much larger than those which would have been proper to an ice- sheet overspreading a surface but recently abandoned. If, there- fore, in the upper of two layers of subglacial till, bowlders of great size predominate, as compared with those of a lower homol- ogous layer, they may be indicative of a great interval of time between the deposition of the upper and lower beds of drift. If the home of these bowlders be far north of the limit of the lesser sheet of drift, the distance, as well as the duration, of the ice retreat must have been great, and the reference of the two beds of till to distinct ice epochs would be favored. The case might be so strong as to make no other interpretation possible. Where in itself inconclusive, this criterion would have corroborative significance. In its application, the discrimination of subglacial and superglacial till would be imperative. The absence of physical dissimilarity between superposed layers of subglacial till would not be proof of the absence of separate glacial epochs. The phenomena constituting the cri- terion could hardly be expected to be of common occurrence. They would never be obtrusive, and may easily have escaped attention where they exist.” (11) Varying Altitudes and Attitudes of the Land. Another line of argument has to do with the altitude and attitude of the land during the deposition of various members of the drift com- plex. If during the deposition of one part of the drift that part of the continent covered by the outer part of the ice was low, the drainage from it would be sluggish. If the deposits of this drainage persist to the present time, we may find in their character evidence of the nature of the drainage, and therefore of the attitude of the land. If at a later time of drift deposi- tion the glacial drainage in the same region was more vigorous, tThe roth criterion, in the order here named, was suggested by Mr. McGee in the discussion which followed the reading of the paper at Ottawa. DU SAMNCDPANGEACTALE EPOCH S: SI the deposits made by the glacial streams would be correspond- ingly coarser. In these deposits, if they persist to the present day, we should find conclusive evidence of the swiftness of the streams. If it can be shown that during the deposition of one sheet of drift drainage was sluggish, and that during the deposi- tion of a later body of drift the drainage was vigorous, these facts are evidence of an interval between the two times of drift deposition, sufficiently long to accomplish the corresponding changes in elevation or attitude. Since such changes of altitude and attitude are generally believed to have been accomplished slowly, the interval must be believed to have been of considera~ ble duration. It is true that continental altitudes and attitudes might change during a single epoch of glaciation. If the change thus brought about resulted in increased slope, the more sluggish drainage of the earlier part of the epoch would be gradually transformed into the more vigorous drainage of the later part. In this case, if the evidence of both the earlier sluggish drainage and of the later vigorous drainage remain, there should also remain the evidence of the intermediate stages. If the deposits representing the intermediate condition of drainage do not exist, while those representing both extremes do, there would be the best of reason for believing that the intermediate phases of drain- age did not exist during a glacial epoch, but during an interglacial epoch, when streams were not handling glacial debris, and when they were eroding rather than depositing. The deposits of the slow and of the swift drainage might occur in such relations as to prove, beyond peradventure, that intermediate stages of e/acial drainage never existed. If the sluggish drainage accompanied the maximum ice inva- sion, while the vigorous accompanied a lesser, the evidence of the swift streams might be found far north of the southern limit of the earlier drift. The farther north of the outer border of the older drift the gravel representing the vigorous drainage of the later and minor ice-sheet occurs, the further the ice must have retreated before the change from the one type of drainage 82 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. to the other was effected. On the other hand, the farther north of the limit of the later ice advance the sluggish drainage accom- panying the earlier ice-sheet may be traced, the farther must the ice have receded before the changes resulting in vigorous drainage occurred. Under certain relations, the retreat of the ice might be shown to have been great enough, before the orographic movements which altered the nature of the drainage, to constitute in our judgment, a re-advance a distinct ice epoch. If for example throughout the course of a long river whose basin was largely covered with ice, there be evidence that sluggish drainage obtained during the maximum ice advance, and during all stages of the ice retreat until the basin was free from ice, and if there be evidence of a vigorous glacial drainage in the same valley at a later time, with no gradations between the two types, we have proof positive of at least a great recession, and of a considerable elevation of the land after the ice had receded beyond the limits of the drainage basin and before it again reached it in its re-advance. We hold that these phases of glacial drainage deposits may be so related to each other, to the valleys in which they occur, and to more or less distinct bodies of glacier drift, as to prove so great a recession of ice between the diverse phases of drainage deposition, as to constitute the second advance a distinct ice epoch. The absence of evidence that the land stood at different elevations during different parts of the period of drift deposi- tion, does not in any way militate against the theory of recur- rent and distinct ice epochs. A constant attitude of the land is the thing to be assumed, until positive evidence to the contrary is adduced. (12) Vigor and Sluggishness of Ice Action. If it can be shown that during one epoch of glaciation, we will say the epoch of maxi- mum ice extension, the ice action was relatively sluggish, while during a later and minor advance its action was vigorous, the difference of action might be regarded as presumptive evidence of distinct ice epochs. Evidence of the two phases of ice action here referred to are difficult of definition, but they have been LDS TUNG TS GL A CLA EPOCTES. 83 independently noted by more than one glacialist. It is true that a forward oscillation of the ice edge might be more forceful than an earlier forward movement which might have reached a greater extension. In itself, therefore, this line of evidence can not be regarded as possessing great value. < It has been indicated that under certain circumstances, and in certain relations, some of the foregoing criteria, taken singly, may be conclusive of glaciations so distinct from each other, as to make their reference to separate epochs proper. But where the facts and relations which constitute one of the criteria are found, the facts and relations constituting one or more of the others are likely to be found as well. Where two of the fore- going criteria are found to be coexistent, their joint force is greater than that of either one. If neither one be absolutely conclusive, the two may still be, since the one may exactly meet the deficiency of the other. If three or more concurrent lines of evidence exist in any locality, the case is still further strength- ened. We maintain that several of the foregoing criteria may be so related to each other and to the formations concerned, as not only to make the recognition of separate ice epochs proper, but to make the failure of such recognition altogether unscien- tific. Even when a single line of evidence, or when double, or triple, or quadruple lines of evidence are not absolutely conclu- sive in ruling out every conceivable technical escape from the conclusion that there were separate ice epochs, their cumulative and corroborative force may still be such as to carry conviction scarcely less positive than that which mathematical demonstra- tion would afford. In the nature of the case not all of these various lines of evidence could be expected to be found in any one locality, or perhaps in any one limited geographic area, but where one occurs, some or all of the others are liable to be found under favoring circumstance. The number of criteria, and the great extent of area where they may hope for applica- tion, afford great possibilities. From the foregoing discussion, it will be readily seen that the nature of the criteria and the limitations imposed upon their 84 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. application by the difficulty of proving stratigraphic continuity in such a formation as the drift, necessitate the greatest care in their use, and reduce the value of hasty and inexpert conclusions to a minimum. IV. AREAS WHERE THE CRITERIA FIND READIEST APPLICATION. The foregoing criteria find their readiest application in regions where a later sheet of drift, suspected of belonging to a later ice epoch, failed to reach the border of an earlier sheet of drift, suspected of belonging to an earlier ice epoch. The Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th and 1oth as enumerated above, find their appli- cation wholly within the area affected by the drift of the sepa- rate epochs, if such there were. While within this general area they may be looked for at any point, they are likely to be of rare occurrence, except along a somewhat narrow belt, say 50 to 100 miles, adjacent to the border of the lesser ice advance. The conditions for their occurrence and detection are greatly favored if the lesser drift sheet be the later. The 6th, 7th, oth and 12th criteria might hope for application within the same belt, but especially along a narrow zone on either side of the margin of the later drift sheet. It is along this zone that the types of surface are thrown into sharpest contrast, both as to material and topography. The 8th and 11th criteria have still wider limits of application, both within and without the border of the lesser ice advance. ROLLIN D. SALISBURY. TDL EORIALS Ir is the chief function of the national, state and provincial geological surveys to bring forth the great concrete facts relative to the structure and resources of their several fields. Within their special domains they also do an important work in the cor- relation of structures and formations, in the systematic aggrega- tion of the facts, in the organizing of results, and in the development of the fundamental principles of geological science. To some extent they are permitted to do this beyond their own fields, but in the main the boundaries of these fields are the limits of their codrdinations. They therefore leave a great function to be performed by some other agency in the coérdina- tion of interstate, international, and intercontinental factors. They are also restrained by their relationships to a somewhat too narrowly utilitarian public from devoting much direct atten- tion to the solution of the deeper and broader problems that constitute the soul of science, though their contributions bear upon these in the most radical and important way. In the primary work of systematic observation, and the development of the immediate conclusions that spring therefrom, these sur- veys surpass all other agencies in the value of their contributions to the growth of the science, but in the secondary and ulterior work of correlation, in the synthetic aggregation and organization of results, and in the analytical and philosophical treatment of the whole, they need to be supplemented by agencies whose facilities and limitations lie in other lines, agencies whose relations and dependencies are complementary in nature. This secondary and ulterior work, in some degree, has been done by individual master students of systematic and philosophical geology, but toa very great extent it has not been done atall. Itis a function which properly falls to universities, if the universities can only rise to 85 86 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. meet it; for it is the function of universities, in the larger modern view, not only to rehearse science, nor merely even to educate _young geologists, important as that is, but to develop science for science’s own sake, and for its own inherent and permanent utilities as distinguished from its immediate applicabilities. To fulfill this function they must not only realize and appreciate it, but they must be equipped for field and experimental work, as well as library and laboratory study. Ideal correlations and academic systematizing are as apt to be hindrances as helps to the progress of science. While a few of the great universities of this country and Europe have made notable advances in these directions, the universities are, on the whole, far behind the great surveys in the performance of the work which properly falls to them. This is due not so much to a lack of appreciation of the function as to the lack of facilities. With the development of this higher function of the univer- sities there goes a coérdinate function for a university journal of geology, a journal whose special efforts shall be devoted to promoting the growth of systematic, philosophical, and funda- mental geology, and to the education of professional geologists. No part of the wide domain can wisely be neglected by any journal, but there seems to be an open field for a periodical which specially invites the discussion of systematic and funda- mental themes, and of international and intercontinental rela- tions, and which in particular seeks to promote the study of geographic and continental evolution, orographic movements, volcanic coérdinations and consanguinities, biological develop- ments and migrations, climatic changes, and similar questions of wide and fundamental interest. This field is not likely to be successfully cultivated except by a systematic endeavor, pursued through a period of years, to bring together the latest and best summations of the results attained in the several national fields in a common medium, where they can be compared and dis- cussed, and where tentative correlations will suggest themselves, out of which, in turn, working hypotheses will naturally spring, leading on to such direct investigations as the nature of each PDT AR OTAATESS.. 87 question invites. It would be presumptuous to assume that the JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY can cultivate with more than very partial success this field, but it especially invites contributions of this class. Another phase of geology which is thought_to stand in much need of active cultivation is found in the clear and sharp analysis of its processes, the exhaustive classification of its phenomena, especially on genetic bases, the development of criteria of dis- crimination, the more complete evolution and formulation of its principles and the development of its working methods. The recent opening of new fields of research and the rapid progress of several new and important departments of the science give peculiar emphasis to this need. The rising generation of geolo- gists, the hope of the science, should be schooled in these latest and most critical aspects of the science. A department of the JOURNAL, entitled ‘Studies for Students,” has been opened for the special cultivation of this field and for its adaptation to advanced students and progressive teachers of geology. Mere elementary presentations of processes and principles are not desired, but searching and critical expositions are solicited suited to the needs of young geologists who seek the highest professional equipment, and to progressive teachers who desire the fullest practicable command of the newest developments of the subject. These contributions may not be without their value to those who have already borne a considerable part of the heat and burden of life’s professional day. It is our desire to open the pages of the JourNaL as broadly as a due regard for merit will permit, and to free it as much as possible from local and institutional aspects. It will have the very important advantage of being published under the auspices and guarantee of the University of Chicago, and will be free from the usual financial embarrassments attending the publi- cation of a scientific magazine. This necessarily imposes upon the local editors the immediate responsibility for its editorship. Beyond this, it is hoped that its institutional relationship will disappear entirely in an earnest effort to promote the widest 88 LTTE JOCKNAL NN OFNGEROLO GY: interests of the science. As an earnest of this wider effort several eminent geologists, representing some of the leading universities of this country, and some of the great geological organizations of Europe, have kindly consented to act as associ- ate editors. : 1G 5G, + Upon invitation of the World’s Congress Auxiliary of the World’s Columbian Exposition committees were appointed by the several sections of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science at its Rochester meeting to codperate with it in completing the organization of scientific congresses to be held at Chicago in connection with the forthcoming World’s Fair. The committee appointed by the geological and geo- graphical section consisted of Thomas C. Chamberlin, John C. Branner, Grove K. Gilbert, W. J. McGee, Rollin D. Salisbury, Eugene A. Smith, Charles D. Walcott, J. F. Whiteaves, Geo. H. Williams, H. S. Williams and N. H. Winchell. It has been arranged that this committee should undertake the work of preparing the scientific program for the Geological Congress. The committee have prepared a provisional schedule of topics, which they have submitted to the Advisory Council for revision. It has seemed to the committee that all contri- butions should be such as to have an international interest. Preferably, they should be subjects that can only be treated most advantageously in such a congress, especially those that involve the bringing together of data from different lands for comparison. The committee suggest the organization of the subjects under the following general classes : First. Such as shall show the present state of geological progress. It is believed that this can best be done by an exhi- bition of geological maps which shall show the latest and best results of official and other surveys. As such maps will be pre- pared, it is hoped, for the World’s Fair, duplicates can be made at a slight expense for the use of the Congress. It is hoped _ that each country that has made any notable progress in map- EDITORIALS. 89 ping its geological formations will furnish for the Congress at least a general geological map, if not also special or analytical maps. SECOND. Such subjects as bear upon continental growth and intercontinental relations. It is proposed to make this a leading line of discussion during the Congress, in the belief that there is no subject more appropriate, and that there is none which better represents the present efforts of geologists or commands a more general interest. It is hoped that analytical maps will be pre- pared by the geologists of the several countries representing the stages of growth of these regions in each of the great eras from the Archean to the Pleistocene, and that such analytical maps may constitute a leading feature of the several presentations. Among the subjects upon which contributions are specially in- vited are the following: The correlation of continental and intercontinental orographic movements and geographic accre- tions by sedimentation ; The codrdination of periods of vulcan- ism in the different countries; The coordination of climatic states and changes; The correlation of faunal and floral varia- tions and migrations. It is hoped that one session may be devoted to such codrdination papers bearing upon each of the great subdivisions : viz., Archean, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, and Pleistocene. TuirD. Papers on Paleontological and Archeological Geol- ogy of international scope. FourtH. Contributions to Physical, Structural and Petro- logical Geology having international or general bearings. Firrx. Contributions to Economic Geology having general bearings. SrxtH. Miscellaneous papers of especial and general interest. The foregoing groups are intended to embrace and coérdi- nate the list of special themes announced in the circular issued by the local committee some months since, except such as may be best suited to popular presentation, for which special provision is to be made. It will be determined later, when the number and nature of the papers are ascertained, whether all will be arranged so as to gO LTTE, OWI ALG TOTMGLR OLE QENG form a continuous program, or whether sub-sections will be formed and two or more sessions held simultaneously. It is the desire of the World’s Congress Auxiliary that a few addresses of a popular nature shall be given, with a view to stimulating an interest in the development of the science on the part of the public. ToICAG ngs EXTRA copies of the articles appearing under the head of Studies for Students will be printed and kept on sale for the use of teachers and advanced classes. The prices will be fixed as low as practicable, and a standing list published in the advertis- ing columns of the JOURNAL. , REVIEWS. On the Glacial Succession in Europe. By Prof. JAMES GEIk1E. Tran- sactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XX XVII., Part I. (No. 9), 1892, pp. 127-149 (with a map). In this timely essay Prof. Geikie reaches the following conclusions: 1. The record of the first glacial epoch is found in the Weyborn Crag of Britain, and the ground moraine beneath the ‘“ Lower Dilu vium” of the continent. During this epoch, the direction of the ice movement in southern Sweden was from the south-east to the north- west. This first glacial epoch of which direct evidence is adduced was followed by an interglacial interval, during which the forest-bed of Cromer, the breccia of H6tting, the lignites of Leffe and Pianico, and certain beds in central France were deposited. During this inter- glacial epoch, the climate is believed to have been very mild. 2. There followed a second epoch of glaciation, when the ice sheet of Britain became confluent with that of the continent. This was the epoch during which the ice sheet reached its southernmost extension. Its depositions are found in the lower boulder clays of Britain, the lower diluvium of Scandinavia and north Germany (in part), the lower glacial deposits of south Germany and central Russia, the ground moraines and high level gravel terraces of Alpine lands, and the terminal moraines of the outer zone. During this second glacial epoch, Alpine glaciers are believed to have attained their greatest development. This epoch of extreme glaciation was followed by an interglacial interval, during which Britain is believed to have been joined to the continent. During this interval, the climate became temperate. In Russia (near Moscow) there seems to be evidence that it was milder and more humid than that of the same region at the present day. Toward the close of the mild epoch, submergence seems to have been accompanied by an increasing degree of cold, which finally ended in another glacial epoch. 3. The subsidence which marked the close of the second inter- glacial interval, marked likewise the inauguration of the third glacial OI Q2 LEE JOORNALNOE NGL OLOG V.. epoch. Its work is represented in Britain by the upper boulder clay, in Scandinavia and Germany by the lower diluvium (in part), in central Russia by the upper glacial series, in Alpine lands by ground moraines and gravel terraces. The ice sheets of Scandinavia and Britain were again confluent, but did not extend quite so far south as during the second glacial epoch. This third glacial epoch is believed to have been followed by another interglacial interval, during which fresh water alluvia, lignite and peat accumulations were made. These are repre- sented by the interglacial beds of north Germany, and by some of the so-called postglacial alluvia of Britain. There were also marine deposits on the coasts of Britain and on the borders of the Baltic. During this interglacial interval, Britain is believed to have been con- tinental. The climate was temperate, but in the course of time became more severe. ‘This increasing severity seems to have been accompa- nied by submergence, which amounted to something like 100 ft. below the present sea-level on the coasts of Scotland. The Baltic provinces of Germany were also invaded by the waters of the North Sea. 4. There followed a fourth period of glaciation, during which the major part of the Scottish Highland was covered by an ice sheet. Local ice sheets existed in the southern uplands of Scotland and in mountain districts in other parts of Britain, and the great valley glaciers sometimes coalesced on the low lands. Icebergs floated out at the mouths of some of the highland sea-lochs. In some places, terminal moraines were deposited upon marine beds which were then in process of formation. These beds are now too ft. above the sea level. At this time Scandinavia was covered by a great ice sheet, which yielded icebergs to the sea along the whole west coast of Nor- way. The ground moraines and terminal moraines of the mountain regions of Britain represent the deposits of this ice epoch. The upper diluvium of Scandinavia, Finland, and north Germany repre- sent the work of the contemporaneous, but not confluent, ice sheet of the continent. In the Alps, terminal moraines in the large longi- tudinal valleys were made at the same time. This fourth glacial epoch was followed by a fourth interglacial - interval, during which fresh water alluvial deposits were made, and also the “lower buried forest and peat” of Britain and north- western Europe. At this time, Scotland seems to have stood 45 to 50 feet lower than now, and Carse clays and raised beaches represent the work of the sea. During this interglacial interval, Britain is REVIEWS. 93 believed to have become again continental, while the climate became so far ameliorated as to allow the growth of great forests. Subse- quently the insulation of Britain was effected, and this was followed by a climate which was probably colder than the present. 5. The severity of the climate which marked the close of the fourth interglacial interval was such as to bring about local glaciation in some of the mountain valleys of Britain. Here and there the glaciers projected their moraines so far down the mountains that they rest on what is now the 45 to 50 feet beach. In the Alps, this fifth epoch of glaciation is represented by the so-called postglacial moraines in the upper valleys. This is believed to have been the last appearance of glaciers in Britain. ‘The dissolution of these glaciers was again followed by an emergence of the island, and by more genial climatic conditions. In support of his conclusions, Prof. Geikie cites some striking facts which are not so widely known as they should be. For example, Swedish geologists have found evidences that there was an ice sheet antedating that which deposited the “lower diluvium,” and that during this earlier glaciation the direction of ice movement in southern Sweden was from the south-east to the north-west. The ground moraine deposited by this ice sheet is overlain by the “lower diluvium”’ which was produced by an ice movement from the north north-east to the south south-west, or nearly at right angles to the first. Again, near Moscow, there exist interglacial beds whose plant remains indicate a climate milder and more humid than that of the present time. These interglacial beds, it will be observed, occur in the region of the “lower diluvium” quite beyond the margin of the ice which produced the “upper diluvium”’ of Germany and Scandinavia. During this inter- glacial interval, Prof. Geikie maintains that no part of Russia could have been covered with ice. If, then, within the limits of the area covered by the “lower diluvium,” and not by the “upper,” distinct beds of glacial drift are separated by such beds as those cited, there can be no question but that such separation marks two distinct glacial epochs. If there was an earlier glaciation when the movement of the ice in Sweden was at right angles to that during which the lower part of the “lower diluvium”’ was produced, this also would seem to be good evidence of three ice epochs prior to the “upper diluvium.” The epoch of the “upper diluvium” would then constitute the fourth glacial epoch, and this is the interpretation of Prof. Geikie. 04 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. Outside the area of the European continental ice sheet, facts are adduced in striking confirmation of the multiple ice epoch theory. These facts are found in Switzerland, where evidences of multiple glaciation have been recognized, and in the Pyrenees where evidences of three separate ice epochs have been found. In France, evidences of an inter-glacial interval have been found in the region of the Puy de Dome of such duration as to allow the excavation of valleys to a depth of goo feet. The length of time which would be required for such stupendous erosion must certainly be regarded as sufficient to allow the preceding and succeeding glaciations to be considered as - belonging to two distinct epochs. Another point of great significance and interest which Prof. Geikie’s essay brings out, is the correlation in Britain between epochs of glaciation and epochs of subsidence on the one hand, and between interglacial intervals and epochs of elevation on the other. If Prof. Geikie’s interpretation be well founded, and so far as we are able to judge from the facts presented this is the case, his conclusions would seem to be fatal to the hypothesis that glacial climate was pro- duced by northern elevation. The map which Prof. Geikie gives, showing the limit of ice advance during the fourth glacial epoch, seems to us open to criticism. On the ground of personal observation, the writer believes that the ice sheet of the glacial epoch here represented did not extend notably, if at all, beyond the Baltic Ridge.’ Prof. Geikie is an advocate of Dr. Croll’s astronomical theory of glacial climate, and thinks that even five is not the full number of glacial epochs belonging to the Pleistocene period. He believes there may have been a series of glacial epochs increasing in severity to a maxi- mum represented by what is now designated as the second glacial epoch. This maximum was followed by a series of epochs of diminishing severity, represented by what he designates the third, fourth and fifth epochs. The essay is a timely contribution to glacial geology. ROLLIN D. SALISBURY. *See American Journal of Science, May, 1887. Ina recent letter, Prof. Geikie indicates that he is convinced, from subsequent personal observation, that his map is erroneous so far as the limit of the ice of this epoch is concerned. The mapping given was based on the opinion of others. ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS: OF CURRENT LITERATURE: = The Sub- Glacial Origin of Certain Eskers. By Witi1am Morris Davis, Harvard University. (Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. XXV., May 18, 1892). A critical discussion of the conditions under which it is conceived certain eskers and sand plateaus (plains) were formed. The Auburndale district, ten miles east of Boston, presents three classes of modified—drift deposits ;— sand plateaus, eskers, and kames. These deposits are well exposed. The sand plateaus have the characteristics of delta deposits of glacial streams,— even surfaces, well - bedded sands and gravels, the beds sloping out- ward from the “head” at an angle of 12° to 20°, and in close agreement with the slope of the plateau front, a lobate margin, deposits distinctly coarser at the head than near the front, and a series of nearly horizontal roughly cross - bedded gravels overlying the sloping beds. The eskers are essentially of the same material as that of the plateau, often so poorly stratified as to render differentiation of the beds difficult. The interstices between the pebbles are often unfilled, although there is abun- dance of fine material in adjoining layers. This “open work” is taken to indicate rapid deposition, and seems to preclude the supposition that the gravels have settled down from a superglacial position, or been traversed by currents of any volume. In several instances the eskers can be followed to direct union with sand plateaus. Towards its lower end the esker frequently “gives out branches” and “the adjacent lowland surface becomes more or less encumbered with sand mounds or kames,” indicating a decayed margin of the ice. Prof. Davis’ conclusions are: “1, The eskers and sand plateaus of Auburndale and Newtonville were formed by running water just inside and outside of the ice margin in the closing stage of the last glacial epoch. “2, The ice-sheet was a stagnant, decaying mass at the time of their formation, as is shown by the ragged outline of its margin. * Abstracts in this number are prepared by Henry B. Kummel, Chas. E. Peet, J. A. Bownocker. 95 96 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. «3. Eskers and sand plateaus are genetically connected; the term, feed- ing - esker, is fully warranted by the relation of the two in position, structure, and composition. ‘““4. The sand plateaus were made rapidly; this is proved by the absence of disordered beds at their heads, where space would have been opened by the backward melting of the ice had the forward growth of the plateau been slow. The eskers were also made rapidly, as is shown by their ‘open - work gravels.’ “5. The diversion of the feeding streams to other outlets left the plateaus and the eskers without further energetic action as the ice melted away from them. “6, The present form and structure of the eskers are more accordant with the supposition of a subglacial origin than of a superglacial origin; but it is not intended to imply that other eskers of more irregular form and dif- ferent structure could not have been deposited in superglacial channels.” Jele 18), IK, Studies in Structural Geology. By BatLty Wi tis, U.S. Geol. Surv. (Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, June, 1892). The paper aims “to present some of the results of observation of the geologists of the Appalachian division during the past three years on the subject of structural geology in the Appalachian province.” The structural features are all of one type but of different phases, comprised in four great districts. 1) the district of close folding, 2) a district whose chief structural characteristic is cleavage, 3) a district of open folding, 4) a district of fault- ing and folding. The answer to the questions, Why did the strata bend in the district of open folding, and why did they break in the district of fault- ing, is that the thrust affected them according to their rigidity under their respective conditions of superincumbent load. “We know that load up to a certain point restrains fracture in material under thrust.” In the district of open folding the Devonian limestone is the most rigid of the strata and “the one which would most effectively transmit the compressing thrust and would control the resulting structure.” In the district of open folding this limestone was prevented from breaking and faulting by a load of superin- cumbent strata exerting a pressure of 10,000 to 23,000 pounds per square inch, while in the faulted district a load of 5,000 to 10,000 pounds per square inch permitted the strata to break and fault. The answer to the question, Why did the compression affect this zone, is given. ‘It becomes apparent on study of sections that where compression raised a great arch there previously existed a bend from a nearly horizontal to a descending position in the principal stratum transmitting the thrust. Greater anticlines and synclines originated in upward and downward con- vexity of initial dips, due to unequal deposits of sediments which depress ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS. 97 underlying strata in proportion to their weight. Such folds may be called original.” The Pottsville, Mahanoy, Shamokin and Wyoming coal basins of Pennsylvania belong to this class. Experiments have recently been carried’ on in the office of the United States Geological Survey reproducing the different forms of folding. The experiments differed from other experiments in that 1) the materials used to simulate the stratified rocks varied in consistency from brittle to plastic, according to the depth at which deformation is supposed to take place; 2) the compression was exerted under a movable load representing the weight of superincumbent strata; 3) the strata rested on a yielding base to simulate the condition of support of any arc of the earth’s crust. The following are the conclusions from the experiments : 1. “When a thrust tangentially affects a stratified mass, it is transmitted in the direction of the strata, and by each stratum according to its inflexi- bility. At any bend the force is resolved into components, one radial, the other tangential to the dip beyond the bend; the radial component, if directed downward, tends to depress the stratum and displace its support. 2. “A thrust so resolved can only raise an anticline or arch which is strong enough to sustain the load lifted by its development; such an arch may be called competent; and since strength is a function of the proportions of a structure, it follows that, for a given stratum, the size of a competent anticline will vary inversely as the load; or for a given load the size will vary as the thickness of the effective stratum. = “The superincumbent load borne by a competent anticline is trans- ferred to the supports of the arch at the points of inflection of the limbs, 4. ‘When a competent arch is raised by thrust from one side, the load transferred may so depress the resulting syncline further from the force that an initial dip will be produced in otherwise undisturbed strata; this dip will rise to a bend from which a new anticline may be developed. This anticline is a result of the first, and may be called ‘subsequent’ in distinction to orig- inal folds. Since subsequent folds are simply competent structures, their size will be determined by conditions of thickness and load, and for like con- ditions they should be equal; and they must, in consequence of conditions of development, be parallel to the original fold and to each other. An example of an original fold with its subsequent anticlines is the Nittany arch and the group of parallel anticlines which lie southeast of it, extending northeast from the Broad Top basin.” (Cy 1S, 12 The Catskill Delta in the Post- Glacial Hudson Estuary. By WitLiaM Morris Davis. (From the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. XXV., 1891). The post- Tertiary trenches of the Hudson and its tributaries are in the main filled with clay beds, which, covered by a thin deposit of sand, rise in 98 TTL fOCLIN ATE OT | GAROLZO GN terraces 130, 150, or even 180 feet above tide-water. These clays are the result of a late glacial or postglacial submergence of the valley, but their upper surface does not indicate the amount of their submergence, as they are bottom deposits. Delta deposits made by the tributary streams, where they entered the Hudson estuary, would indicate the amount of submergence. Such deposits are found on the Catskill a mile north of Cairo, and eroded remnants are traceable for three or four miles down stream. The surface is characterized by great numbers of water- worn stones up to fifteen or eight- een inches in diameter. The lobate margin, where present, is poorly defined. These deposits range from 290 feet (aneroid) above tide, up river, to 270 feet further Cown. One-tenth of a cubic mile of material seems to have been washed into the Catskill trench at the point of this delta between the time of the ice departure and the elevation of the land. Subsequent ter- racing has removed half that amount. The course of the Catskill at Leeds, where it crosses a ledge of hard Corniferous limestone is probably of postglacial superimposed origin, but the preglacial valley cannot be definitely fixed. EB ke Geological Survey of Alabama.— Bulletin 4. By C. WiLLaRD Haves. (Report of the Geology of Northeastern Alabama and Adjacent Portions of Georgia and Tennessee). This report covers an area of 5950 miles, two-thirds in Alabama. Topo- graphically it falls into three divisions: 1) the Cumberland and other plateaus of the northwest; 2) in the center, anticlinal valleys— Browns and Wills, with the synclinal mountains— Sand and Lookout; 3) the monoclinal mountains, the “flatwoods” (Coosa shales) and the chert hills (Knox lime- | stone) of the southeast. The drainage of the first is radial from the center of the plateau to the Tennessee; that of the second, once consequent upon the folded structure, is now adjusted to the strike of the soft beds. The formations are Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous. Total thickness is from 13,000 to 18,000 feet in the east, but decreases west- ward. Hard sandstones of the Carboniferous form the cappings of the plateaus and synclinal mountains. In the anticlinal and monoclinal valleys the Silurian and Cambrian appear. The rocks pass from the nearly hori- zontal beds of the plateau region, by narrow unsymmetrical anticlines with steeper dip on the northwest side, and by broad shallow synclines, to the. complicated folds of the southeast. The axes of these latter folds dip more or less abruptly northward and southward, causing the ridges to assume zigzag courses. Synclines are often crossed by anticlines. Thrust faults exist, some of great magnitude, and traceable for 200 to 300 miles. By the “Rome thrust fault’ the Cambrian shales have been shoved four to five miles over upon the Carboniferous shales. Most of the over- ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS. 99 thrust strata have been worn away, but tongues of Cambrian shale still remain to all appearances lying conformably upon the Carboniferous strata. Transverse thrust faults terminate Gaylor’s ridge, Dirt Seller Mountain, and Lookout Mountain on the south. ES Bee The Correlation of Moraines with Ratsed Beaches-af Lake Erie. By Frank LrvereTT, U. S. Geol. Surv. (Wisconsin Academy of Soremes, | WOll, WIE, user!) References have been made in Geological literature to the beaches of the eastern portion of the Lake Erie basin, but up to the time of Mr. Leverett’s work none of the beaches had been completely traced. Mr. Gilbert had dis- covered that several of the raised beaches do not completely encircle Lake Erie, and supposed that their eastern termini represent the successive positions of the front of the continental glacier during its retreat northeastward across the Lake Erie basin. Mr. Leverett verifies this theory by demonstrating that certain moraines are the correlatives of the beaches. They are as follows: I. The Van Wert or upper beach and its correlative moraine, the Blanch- ard ridge. II. The Leipsic or second beach and its correlative moraines. III. The Belmore, or third beach and its correlative moraine. I. The Van Wert beach extends eastward from the former southwest- ward outlet of Lake Erie near Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Findlay, Ohio, where it joins the Blanchard moraine. Through Indiana and Ohio its altitude is quite uniformly 210 feet above Lake Erie. While the Van Wert beach was forming, the ice front was the northeast- ern shore of the lake as far east as Findlay, Ohio, its position being marked by the Blanchard moraine. East of Findlay, where the Van Wert beach joins it, the moraine is of the normal type. But west of Findlay, it presents peculiarities of topography and structure, resulting from the presence of lake water beneath the ice margin. The water was shallow and incapable of buoying up the ice-sheet, and producing icebergs. The motion of the water under the ice-sheet produced a variable structure. This is the only instance of a moraine demonstrably formed in lake water. II. The Leipsic,; or second beach, was formed after the ice had retreated from its position marked by the Blanchard moraine. Its altitude is 195 to 200 feet above Lake Erie. It has its terminus near Cleveland, where it connects with the western end of a moraine. Ill. The Belmore beach and its correlative moraine. Between the Leip- sic beach and the present shore of Lake Erie are several beaches. One of these, the Belmore beach, terminates near Cleveland, while the others extend into southwestern New York, and probably connect with moraines, though this connection has not been traced. The general altitude of the Belmore beach in Ohio is 160 to 170 feet above Lake Erie. Unlike the Van Wert and 100 THE JOURNAL OF (GEOLOGY: Leipsic beaches, it does not directly connect witha moraine at its eastern end, ‘but a gap of ten miles intervenes. Terraces at Cleveland, Mr. Leverett thinks, make a connection between the eastern end of the beach and the west- ern end of the moraine at Euclid, Ohio. : CebeSRs The Climate of Europe During the Glacial Epoch. By CLEMENT REID. (Natural Science. Vol. I, No. 6, 1892). Temperature of the Sea.— The temperature of the English Channel was similar to that where the isotherm of 32° F. is now situated. The winter temperature can scarcely have been 20° colder than at present. The Medi- terranean was perhaps 5° colder than now. Temperature of the Land (air).—It does not appear that the climate of the lowlands of southern Europe can have been 20° lower than the present mean; 10° or perhaps less appear to have been the refrigeration in the Med- iterranean region. The temperature at the southern margin of the ice-sheet was about 20° colder than at present. The temperature increased rapidly towards the south. Recent observations seem to show that through- out central Europe there was a period of dry cold, causing the country to resemble the arid regions of central Asia. {ecas IS. On the Glacial Pertod and the Earth- Movement Hypothesis. By JAMES Grikik, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Read before the Victoria Institute, London). Geologists generally admit that there have been at least two glacial epochs, separated by one well-marked interglacial period. The closing stage of the Pleistocene period was one of cold conditions in north- western Europe, accompanied by land depressions. After this came a genial climate with a union of the British islands among themselves and also with the continent. This was followed by a cold, humid condition. Upham maintains that the whole of North America north of the Gulf of Mexico stood at least three thousand feet higher at the beginning of the glacial epoch than at present. Fiords were formed before glacial times and so can not be cited as evidence of high land during the glacial period. An elevation of land in the northern part of North America and Europe could not produce glaciation in their southern parts. The deflection of the Gulf Stream by the sinking of the Panama, Professor Giekie argues, could not produce the conditions which prevailed during the glacial epoch. The Earth - Movement hypothesis, he believes, accounts neither for the widespread phenomena of the ice-age, nor for the remarkable interglacial climates. Some maintain that the warm interglacial period was produced by the rise of the Panama land, the sinking of the lands to the north, and the turning of the Gulf Stream from the Pacific into the Atlantic. Why then, asks Profes- sor Geikie, do we not have such a climate now ? Yovi\o 18% ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The following papers have been donated to the library of the Geological Depart- ment of the University of Chicago, mainly by their authors: ABBE, CLEVELAND. ——On the Production of Rain. 8 pp. 1892. Ami, HENRY M., M.A., F.G.S. —On Canadian Extinct Vertebrates. 4 pp.—Ottawa Naturalist. —On the Geology of Quebec and Environs. 26 pp., 1 pl.—Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 2, pp. 477-502. e —On the Geology of Quebec City, Canada. 4 pp.—Canadian Record Sci., April, 1891. —Additional Notes on Ganiograptus Thureani, McCoy, from the Levis For- mation Canada. 2 pp.—Canad. Record Sci., Oct. 1889. : —Reviews of Reports and Papers on Canadian Geology and Paleontology. 8 pp.—Ottawa Naturalist, Oct.-Dec. 1892. —Notes and Descriptions of some new or hitherto unrecorded species of Fossils from the Cambro-Silurian (Ordovician) Rocks of the Province of Quebec. 15 pp. —Canadian Record of Sci., April, 1892. —Review of Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda of the British Museum, Part 8, Nautiloidea. By Arthur H. Foord, F.G.S. 3 pp.—Canadian Record of Sci., Sept. 1891. -—On the Sequence of Strata forming the Quebec Group of Logan and Billings, with Remarks on the Fossil Remains found therein. 4 pp.,— Ottawa Naturalist, June, 1892. ANDE#, A. AND A. OSANN. —Beitrage zur Geologie des Blattes Heidelberg. 39 pp., Ill., 2 pl.—Aus den Mittheilungen der Grossh. Badischen Geologischen Landesanstalt, II Bd. VII-XI. . BALTZER, A. —Beitrage zur Geognosie der Schweizer-Alpen tuber die Frage, ob der Granit-Gneiss der nordlichen Granzregion der Finsteraarhorn-Centralmass eruptiv sei oder nicht, und tiber damit zusammenhangende Probleme. 41 pp., 2 pl.—Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, 1878. —Beitrage zur Geognosie der Schweizer-Alpen. Ueber die Marmorlager am Nordrand des Finsteraarhorn-massivs. 20 pp., 2 pl.—Aus dem Neuen Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, 1877. —Ueber den Hautschild eines Rochen aus der marinen Molasse. 4pp., I pl. —Aus den Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern. —Ueber den natiirlichen Verkohlungsprozess. 23 pp.—Aus der Vierteljahrs- schrift der zurcherischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft. —Randerscheinungen der centralgranitischen Zone in Aarmassiv. 18 pp., 1 pl—Aus dem Neuen Jahrbuch, 1885. Il Band. —Beitrage zur Geognosie der Schweizer-Alpen. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Glarnerschlinge. 20 pp., 1 pl.—Aus dem Neuen Jahrbuch ftir Mineralogie, Geol. und Pal. 1876. —Geologische Skizze des Wetterhorns in Berner Oberland. 14 pp., 2 pl. Zeit. der Deut. geolog. Gesell, 1878. —Geognostich-chemische Mittheilungen iiber die neuesten Eruptionen auf Vulcano und die. Producte derselben. 29 pp., 3 pl.—Zeit. d. Deut. Geolog. Gesell, 1875. 101 “102 LE fOOTINALN OP GIRO“ OG NW. —Ueber Bergstiirze in den Alpen. 50 pp., 1 pl—Aus dem Jahrbuch des S.A.C. (X. Jahrgang) Ziirich, 1875. BAKER, FRANK C. —Notes on a Collection of Shells from the Mauritius; with a consideration of the Genus Magilus of Montfort. 22 pp., 1 pl.—Proc. Rochest. Acad. Sci., Vol. 2, 1892. —Catalogue and Synonomy of the Recent Species of the Family of Muricide, First Paper. 20 pp.—Proc. Rochest. Acad. Sci., Vol. I, 1891. : —Description of New Species of Muricidze with Remarks on the Apices of Certain Forms. 9 pp., 1 pl.—Proc. Rochest. Acad. Sci., Vol. I, 1891. BARROIS, CHARLES. —Sur la présence de fossiles dans le terrain azoique. 4 pp.—Comptes Rendus des Séances de L’Académie des Sciences, Aug. 8, 1892. BEECHER, C.E., Pu.D. —The Development of some Silurian Brachiopods. 8 pl., 96 pp.—N. Y. State Mus., Vol. I, No. I, Oct. 1892. —Brachiospongidz, a Memoir on a Group of Silurian Sponges. 28 pp., 6 pl. Memoirs of the Peabody Mus., Vol. II, Part I, 18809. —Insecta by Alpheus Hyatt and J. M. Arms.—Am. Jour. Sci., March, 1891. —New Types of Carboniferous Cockroaches from the Carboniferous Deposits of the United States; (2) New Carboniferous Myriapoda from IIl.; (3) Illustra- tions of the Carboniferous Arachnida of N. A., of the orders Anthracomarti and Pedipalpi; (4) The Insects of the Triassic Beds at Fairplay, Col., Samuel H. Scudder. 2 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Jan., 1891. —Some Abnormal and Pathologic Forms of Fresh Water Shells from the Vicinity of Albany, N. Y. 2 pp., 2 pl.—36th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. of Nat. 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Part II, Classification of the Stages of Growth and Decline. 22 pp., 1 pl.—Am. Jour. Sci., Aug., 1892. BEACHLER, CHAS. S. —Keokuk Group of the Miss. Valley. 8 pp.—Am. Geol., Aug., 1892. 3 copies. —The Rocks at St. Paul, Indiana and Vicinity. 2pp.—Am. Geol., Mch., 1891. 3 copies. BIGELOW, FRANK H. —Notes on a new Method for the Discussion of Magnetic Observations. 40 - pp., 2 pl.—Bull. Weather Bureau, 1892. BoEHM, GEORG. —Ueber den Fussmuskeleindruck bei Pachyerisma. 2 pp.—Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Freiburg i. B., 1892. VI. 3. —Megalodon, Pachyerisma und Diceras. 24 pp. 9 wood cuts.—Aus den Berichten der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft VI. 2. zu Freiburg i. B., 1891. —Lithiotis Problematica. 16 pp., 3 pl.—Naturforschenden Gesell. in Frei- burg, Band II. Heft 3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 103 —Ueber das Alter der Kalke des col dei Schiosi. 4 pp.—Der Deut. Geolog. Gesell, 1887. —Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Kreide in den Venetianer Alpen. 16 pp., 4 pl. 3 cuts.—Aus den Berichten der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg ibe ebandeViln lett 4: —Die Bivalven der Schichten des Diceras Muensteri (Diceraskalk) von Kelhein. 8 pp.—dZeit. Deut. Geol. Gesell. 1881. —Ueber die Fauna der Schichten mit Durga im Departement der Sarthe. 12 pp-, 1 pl. 2 wood cuts.—Zeit. der Deut. geol. Gesell. Bd. XL., 1888. —Die Facies der grauen Kalke von Venetien im Departement der Sarthe. 6 pp.—Aus der Zeit. der Deut. geol. Gesell, 1887. —Siidalpine Kreideablagerungen. 6 pp.—Aus der Zeit. d. Deut. geol. Gesell, Bd., 33, 2 Heft. —Ueber eine Anomalie im Kelche von Millericrinus mespiliformis. 5 pp., Ill. Zeit. der Deut. Geol. Gesell., Bd. 43, Heft 3. BOWERMAN, A. —The Chinook Winds and other Climatic Conditions of the Northwest. 6 pp. —Hist. and Sci. Soc’y of Manitoba, Apr. 22, 1886. BLANFORD, W. T., LL.D., F.R.S. —On Adleiionell Bridles of the Onereees of Glacial Conditions in the Paleozoic Era, and in the Geological Age of the Beds Containing Plants of the Mesozoic Type in India and Australia. BRIGHAM, ALBERT P. —A Chapter in Glacial History with Illustrative Notes from Central New” York.—Trans. Oneida Hist. Society, 1889-91. —The Geology of Oneida County. 18 pp.—Trans. Oneida Hist. Society, 1887-88. —Rivers and the Evolution of Geographic Forms. 21 pp., Ill.—Am. Geog. Soc’y, Mch.,1892. CHAMBERLIN, T. C. —Hillocks of Angular Gravel and Disturbed Stratification. 12 pp., Ill.— Am. Jour. Sci., May, 1884. CARTER, PRoF. O. C. S. —Ores, Minerals and Geology of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with map.—Hist. of Mont. Co. —Artesian Wells in the Lowest Trias at Norristown. 7 pp.—Proc. Am. [hil. Soc., May 1, 1891. CARPENTER, COMMANDER A., R.N, —Soundings Recently Taken off Barren Island Narcondam, Pl.—Records Geol. Sur. Ind., Vol. XX, Part 1, 1887. CLARKE, F. W. —The Meteoric Collection in the U. S. Nat. Mus. A Catalogue of Meteorites Represented. Nov. 1, 1886. 13 pp. Ill., 1 pl. —Some Nickel Ores from Oregon, Il]. 7 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., June, 1888. —Tschemak’s Theory of the Chlorite group and its Alternative. 10 pp.— Am. Jour. Sci., March, 1892. —On Neprite and Jadeite. 15 pp. 1 pl. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XI, 1888. —Studies in the Mica Group. 6 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Aug., ee —A New occurrence of Gyrolite. 2 pp.—Am. Jour. Sei, i" “Aug., 88 —Experiments upon the Constitution of the Natural Silicates. 2 Jour. Sci., Oct., Nov., Dec., 1890. —Mica. 6 pp.—Min. Resources of the U. S., 1883-4. —Note on the Constitution of Ptilolite and Mordenite——Am. Jour. Sci. Aug., 1892. —On Some Phosphides of Iridium and Platinum on Cadmium Iodide. Some Sp. Gr. Determinations. Researches on the Tartrates of Antimony.—Am. Chem. Jour. Vol. V., No. 4 ; -——The Fractional Analysis of Silicates. 7 pp.—Jour. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. XII, No. to. 7 5 pp.—Am. 104 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. —A Theory of the Mica Group. 10 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Nov. 1889. CLARKE F. W. (AND J. S. DILLER.) —Topaz from Stoneham, Maine. 7 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., May, 1888. —-Turquois from New Mexico. 7 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., ‘Sept., 1886. CLARKE F. W. (AND CHARLES CATLETT.) —A Platiniferous Nickel Ore from Canada. 3 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., May, 1889. CLARKE F. W. (and E. A. SCHNEIDER.) ——On the Constitution of Certain Micas, Vermiculites and Chlorites. 10 pp.— Am. Jour. Sci., Sept., 1891. CoHEN, E. —-Ueber einige eigenthiimliche Melaphyr-Mandelsteine aus Siid-Afrika. 15 pp. Map, 1 pl—Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min., 1875. Mandelsteine Aus Den Maluti- Bergen, Sid- Africa, I p. Ibid, 1880, Bd. I —Ueber Laven von Hawaii und einigen anderen Inseln des Grossen Oceans nebst einigen Bemerkungen ueber glasige Gesteine im allgemeinen. 30 pp.— Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min. Geol. und Pal. 1880, Bd. II. —Goldfiihrende Conglomerate in Siid- Afrika. 3 pp.—Mit. des naturw. Vereins fiir Neu-Vorpommern und Ruegen, 1887. —Ueber die Trennung von Thonerde, Eisenoxyd und Titansdure. 2 pp.— Aus Neuem Jahrb. fiir Min. 1884. —Chemische Untersuchung des Meteoreisens von S. Juliao de Moreira, Portugal, sowie einiger anderen hexaédrischen Eisen. 12 pp._-Aus dem Neuen Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, 1889, Bd. I. —Zusammenstellung petrographischer Untersuchungsmethoden nebst Angabe der Literatur. 36 pp.—Aus den Mit. aus dem naturw. Verein fir Neu-Vor- pommern und Ruegen in Greifswald. —Ueber die Entstehung des Seifengoldes. 20 pp.—Mit. des naturw. Vereins fiir Neu-Vorpommern und Ruegen, 1887. ——Geonostisch-petrographische Skizzen aus Siid- Afrika. 48 pp. 1 pl.——Aus dem Neuen Jahrbuch, Min. 1874. —Ueber einige Vogesengesteine. 6 pp.—-Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min. Geol. und Pal., 1883, Bd. I. —Andalusitfiihrende Granite. 3 pp.—Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min. 1887, Bd Il. —Nekrolog von Jonas Gustaf Oscar Linnarsson. 2 pp.—Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min. 1882. Bd. I. —vVersammlung des Oberrhein, geologischen Vereins zu Duerkheim, bayr. Rheinpfalz, am 13, 14 und 15 April, 1882. Ueber einen Aventurinquartz aus Ostindien. —Berichtigung beziiglich des “Olivin-Diallag -Gesteins” von Schriesheim im Odenwald. 2 pp.—Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min. 1885, Bd. I. ——Ueber Pleochroitische Hofe in Biotit. 5 pp..-Aus den Neuen Jahrb. Min. 1888, Bd. I. d —Kersantit von Laveline. 2 pp.—- Aus den Neuen Jahrb. Min. 1879. —Das Labradoritfiihrende Gestein der Kiiste von Labrador. 3 pp.—-Aus den Neuen Jahrb. Min. 1885, Bd. I. —Ueber eine verbesserte Methode der Isolirung von Gesteinsgemengtheilen vermittelst Flussaure. 3 pp.--Mit. des naturw. Vereines fiir Neu- Vorpommern und Ruegen, 1888. ——Die ‘Gold production Transvaal in Jahre 1889. —Ueber eine Pseudomorphose nach Markasit aus ‘der Kreide von Arcona auf Ruegen. 4 pp.--Aus den Sitzungsberichten des naturw. Vereins fiir Neu- Vorpommern und Ruegen, 1886. —Das Obere Weilerthal und das Zunachst Angrenzende Gebirge. 150 pp.—~ Abhandlungen zur Geologischen Speciakarte von Elsass - Lothringen. —Ueber den Granat der siid-afrikanischen Diamantfelder und ueber den Chromgehalt der Pyrope. 4 pp.—-Aus der Mit. des naturw. Vereins fiir Neu- Vorpommern und Ruegen, 1888. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 105 ——Ueber Speckstein, Pseudophit und dichten Muscovit aus Siid-Afrika. 6 pp.— Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min. 1887, Bd. I. —Titaneisen von den Diamantfeldern in Siid-Afrika. 2 pp.—Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min. 1877. ! —Ueber den Meteoriten von Zsadany, Temesvar Comitat, Banat. 10 pp.—Aus den Verhandlungen des Naturhist-Med. Vereins zu Heidelberg. II Bd., 2 Heft. ~ COHEN E. und W. DEECKE. 1 a —Ueber Geschiebe aus Neu-Vorpommern und Ruegen. 84 pp.—Aus den Mitt. des naturwiss. Vereines fiir Neu- Vorpommern und Ruegen, 1881. —Sind die Stoerungen in der Lagerung der Kreide an de Ostkiiste von Jasmund (Ruegen) durch Faltungen zu erklaren? 10 pp. 3 pl.—Aus den Mit. des naturwiss. Vereins fiir Neu-Vorpommern und Ruegen, 1889. —Ueber das Krystalline Grundgebirge der Inseln Bornholm. COHEN E. und E. WEINSCHENK. —Meteoreisen-Studien. 32 pp.—Annalen des K. Kk. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Bd. VI. Heft 2, 1891. ‘Cross, WHITMAN. —The Post- Laramie Beds of Middle Park, Colo. 27 pp.—Proc. Colo. Sci. Soc., Oct. 3, 1892. —Post- Laramie Deposits of Colorado. 22 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., July, 1892. (and L. G. Eakins). —A New Occurence of Ptilolite——Am. Jour. Sci., Aug., 1892 CROSSKEY, H. W. —On a section of Glacial drift recently explored in Icknield Street, Birming- ham. 8 pp., 3 pl.—Proc. Birm. Phil. Soc. Vol. III, p. 209. Notes on some of the Glacial Phenomena of the Vosges Mountain, with an account of the Glacier of Kertoff. 12 pp.—Jan. 9, 1879. —Recent Researches into the Post-Tertiary Geology of Scotland. 12 pp.— Phil. Soc., Glasgow, Dec. 7, 1868. —On the Tellino Calcarea Bed at Chappel Hall, near Airdrie. —Some additions to the Fauna of the Bridlington (post-Tertiary) Bed. 6 pp.—Proc. Birmingham Phil. Soc. Vol. II, part II, June 9, 1801. —Report of the Committee of the B. A. A. S. appointed for the purpose of recording the position, height above sea-level, character, etc. of Erratic blocks of Eng. Wales and Ire.—Brit. Assoc. 1873, 1878, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1891. (and DAvID ROBERTSON). —The Post-tertiary Fossiliferous Beds of Scotland. 16 pp., 1 pl.—Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow, Vol. IV, Part III, page 241. 8 pp., Vol. V., Part I, page 20. Davis W. M. ——The Convex Profile of Bad Land Divides.—Sci., Oct. 28, 1892. —The Deflective Effect of the Earth’s Rotation. 8 pp.—Am. Met. Jour., April, 1885. —The Subglacial Origin of Certain Eskers. 23 pp.—Proc. Boston Soc’y. of Nat. Hist. Vol. XXI, May, 1892. —Outline of a Course in Elementary Descriptive and Physical Geography for Grades IV. and V. in the Cambridge Grammar School, 1892-3. 4 pp. —Outline of Elementary Meteorology. A synopsis of course ‘‘ Geology I”’ at Harvard College, 1892-3. Dawson, GEo. M.D., D. Sc., F.G.S. —-Recent observations in the Glaciation of Br. Columbia and Adjacent Regions. 4 pp., I pl.—Geol. Mag., Aug., 1888. Dawson, Sir Wo. J. ——The Geological History of Plants. 2 pp.—-Botanical Gazette, Vol. XIII., No. 6. DEECHE, W. —Der Monte Vulture in der Basilicata (Unteritalien) 78 pp. 1 Map., 1 pl.— Aus dem Neuen Jahrb. Min. Geol. und Pal. Beilageband VII. 106 DE fOSLIVATLE WOR NGE OLE O GNA DEWEY, FREDERIC P. —-A Preliminary Catalogue of the Systematic Collection in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the U. S. National Museum. 256 pp.—Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 42. —Plan to Illustrate Resources of the U. S. and their Utilizations, at the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884-85 at New Orleans. 8 pp. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1884, Appendix. —Photographing the Interior of a Coal Mine. 8 pp., 4 pl—-Am. Inst. Min. Eng., July, 1887. —-Some Canadian Iron Ores. 12 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Vol. XII. 1884. —Report of the Department of Metallurgy in the U.S. National Musuem. 4 pp.—Report to the Nat. Mus., 1888-89. —The Department of Metallurgy and Economic Geology in the U.S. Nat. Mus. 26 pp.—Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Sept., 1890. —Hampe’s Method of Determination Cu,O in Metallic Copper. 6 pp.— Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1888. —Porosity of Specific Gravity of Coke. 16 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng., June, 1888. —The Lewis and Bartlett Bag-Process of collecting Lead Fumes at the Lone Elm Works, Joplin, Mo. 32 pp., Ill—Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Feb., 1890. —Note on the Nickel-Ore of Russell Springs, Logan Co., Kan.—Am. Inst. Min. Eng. —Note on the Falling Cliff Zinc Mine. 2 pp.—Am. Inst. Min. Eng., May, 1891. —The Heroult Process of Smelting Aluminum Alloys. 8 pp.—Am. Inst. Min. Engin., Feb., 1890. —Pig Iron of Unusual Strength. 18 pp.—Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Oct’, 1888. DILLER, J. S. —Geology of the Taylorville Region of California. 25 pp., Ill.—Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. 3. pp. 369-394. —Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky. 32 pp., Ill.—Bull.U.S.G.S., No. 38. —Notes on the Geology of Northern Cal. 224 pp.—Bull. U.S. G.S., No. 33. —Fulgurite from Mt. Thielson, Oregon. 7 pp., [].—Am. Jour. Sci., Oct., 1884. —Notes on the Peridotite of Elliot County, Ky. 5 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Aug., 1886. —A Late Volcanic Eruption in Northern Cal. and its Peculiar-Lava. 33 pp., XVII pl., 4 cuts.—Bull. U.S. G. S., 79, 1891. Emmons, S. F. —Abstract of a Report upon the Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado. 90 pp., with maps.—Ann. Rep. U.S. G. S., 1880-81. —Orographic Movements in the Rocky Mountains. 22 pp.—Bull. Geol. Soc’y Am., Vol. I., pp 245-86. —Notes on the Geology of Butte, Montana. 14 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng., July, 1887. —The Genesis of Certain Ore Deposits. 22 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng., March, 1886. —Structural Relations of Ore Deposits. 36 pp.—Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Feb., 1888 —Notes on the Gold Deposits of Montgomery County, Maryland. 22 pp.— Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Feb., 1890. —On Glaciers in the Rocky Mountains. 16 pp.—Proc. Col. Sci. Soc’y, 1887. —Preliminary Notes on Aspen, Col. 26 pp.—Proc. Col. Sci. Soc’y, 1887. —Fluor-Spar Deposits of Southern Ill. 24 pp, map.—Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Baltimore Meeting, Feb., 1892. —The Mining Work of the U.S. Geol. Survey. 13 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Washington Meeting, Feb., 1892. —On the Origin of Fissure Veins. 20 pp.—Proc. Col. Sci. Soc’y, 1887. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. ; 107 Emmons, S. F. (and G. E. BECKER). —Geological Sketches of the Precious Metal Deposits of the Western United States, with notes on Lead Smelting at Leadville. 296 pp.—Tenth Census U.S. Vol. XIII “Statistics and Technology of the Precious Metals.” EMERSON, GEORGE H. —Observations on Crystals and Precipitations in Blowpipe Beads. 18 pp., Ul.—Proc. Am. Acad. of Arts and Sci., March, 1865. FISHER, REV. O. —_ —Mr. Mallet’s Theory of Volcanic Energy Tested. 18 pp.—Phil. Mag., Oct., 1875. —Review of Captain Dutton’s Critical Observations on Theories of the Earth’s Physical Evolution. 8 pp.—Geol. Mag., Aug., 1876. —On the Possibility of Changes in the Latitude of places on the Earth’s Sur- face. Being an appeal to Physicists. 7 pp.—Geol. Mag., July, 1878. —On Theories to Account for Glacial Submergence. 8 pp.—Phil. Mag., Oct., 1892. —On Dynamo Metamorphism. 2 pp.—Geol. Mag., July, 1890. —On the Warp, its Age and Probable Connection with the last Geological Events. 12 pp., ll.—Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc’y, Nov., 1866. —On Implement-bearing Loams in Suffolk. 5 pp.—Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc’y, Vol. III, Pt. VII. —On the Brocklesham Beds of the Isle of Wight Basin. 30 pp.— Proc. Geol. Soc’y, May, 1862. —On a Mammaliferous Deposit at Barrington, near Cambridge. 11 pp., Il.— Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc’y, Nov., 1879. —On the Denudation of Soft Strata. 4 pp.—Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc’y, Feb., 1861. —On the Occurrence of Elephas Meridonalis at Dervlish, Dorset. 8 pp., Ill.— Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc’y, Nov., 1888. —Glacial Action and Raised Sea- Beds. 4 pp., Ill.—Geol. Mag., April, 1873. —On the Origin of the Estuary of the Fleet in Dorsetshire. —On the Brick-pit at Lexden, near Colchester (with notes on the Coleoptera, by T. U. Wollaston). 9 pp., Hl.—Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc’y of London, 1863. —On Faulting, Jointing and Cleavage. 72 pp., Ill.—Geol. Mag., May, 1884. Remarks upon Mr. Mallet’s Strictures on the Mathematical Test applied to his Theory of Volcanic Energy, by Mr. O. Fisher. 6 pp.—Phil. Mag., Feb., 1876. —On the Phosphatic Nodules of the Cretaceous Rock of Cambridgeshire. 14 pp., 1 pl.—Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc’y, Feb., 1873. —On Faults. Reply to Professor Blake’s Criticisms. 3 pp.—Geol. Mag., Sept., 1884. i — “Uniformity” and “Vulcanicity.” 3 pp.—Geol. Mag., March, 1875. —The Cause of Slaty Cleavage. 4 pp.—Geol. Mag., April, 1885. —On the Thermal Conditions and on the Stratification of the Antarctic Ice. 13 pp-—Phil. Mag., June, 1879. —On Cleavage and Distortion. 11 pp.—Geol. Mag., Sep., 1884. —On the Ages of the “Trail” and “ Warp.” 7 pp.—Geol. Mag., May, 1867. —Review of Dutton’s Grand Cajion, Colorado. 4 pp.—Geol. Mag., July, 1883. —On the Theory of the Erosion of Lake Basins by Glaciers. 2 pp.—Geol. Mag., June, 1876. —Oblique and Orthogonal Sections of a Folded Plane. 4 pp., Ill.-—Geol. Mag., Jan., 1891. —On the Cromer Cliffs. 4 pp., Ill.—Geol. Mag., April, 1880. —On Some Natural Pits on the Heaths of Dorsetshire. 2 pp.—Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc’y, London, 1858. —On Cirques and Toluses. 4 pp.—Geol. Mag., Jan., 1872. —On a Worked Flint from the Buck - Earth of Crayford, Kent. 2 pp.—Geol. Mag., June, 1872. FRAZER, Dr. PERSIFOR. —General Notes on the New Orleans Industrial and Cotton Exhibition. 20 pp.—Journal Franklin Institution, June, 1885. ? ” 108 LIE JOURNAL OP AGHOTEO GN. —The Eozoic and Lower Paleozoic in South Wales and_their Comparison with their Appalachian Analogues._ 18 pp.—Am. Inst. Min. Engin., Feb., 1883. —Geological and Mineral Studies in Nuevo Leon and Coahuilla, Mexico. 36 pp., 111, and maps.—Am. Inst. Min. Engin., Feb., 1884. —Trap Dykes in thé Archaean Rocks of Southeastern Pennsylvania. 4 pp.— Am. Phil. Soc., Oct. 17, 1884. —Classification of Coals. 22 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Engin., Vol. VI, 18709. —Descriptive Table of Elements. 2 pp.—1891. —The late International Geological Congress at Berlin. 4 pp.—Am. Phil. Soc’y, Noy. 20, 1885. —Report of the American Committee of the International Congress of Geolo- gists. 5 pp.—Proc. A. A. A. S., Vol. XXXV, August, 1886. —General Notes on the Geology of York County, Penn. 20 pp.—Colored maps. = On the Physical and Chemicai Characteristics of a Trap occurring at Wil- liamson’s Point, Penn. 8 pp.,1 colored plate. Read before Am. Phil. Soc’y, Dec. 20, 1878. —An Hypothesis of the Structure of the Copper Belt of the South Mountain. 4 pp., ll.—-Trans Am. Inst. Min. Engin., June, 1883. Read at the Roanoke, Va., Meeting. —A Broader Field for the U.S. Geological Survey. 4 pp.—Journ. Franklin Instit., Sept., 1888. —The Peach Bottom Slates of the Lower Susquehanna, with sections of the Right and Left Banks. 5 pp., 3 pl.—Am. Inst. Min. Eng., Oct., 1883. —Reply toa paper entitled “ Notes on the Geology of Chester Valley and Vicinity.” 8 pp.—Journ. Franklin Inst., April, 1884. —Mr. Theodore D. Rand’s Criticism of Vol. Cz; Geology of Chester County, Penn. 6 pp.—Journ. Franklin Inst., Oct., 1883. —Archaean Characters of the Rocks of the Nucleal Ranges of theAntilles. 1 p.—Brit. Assn., 1888. —Notes on Fresh - Water Wells of the Atlantic Beach. 4 pp.—Journ. Frank- lin Inst., Sept., 1890. —The Position of the American New Red Sandstone. 8 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Engin., Vol. V. —On the Traps of the Mesozoic Sandstone in York and Adams Counties, Penn. 13 pp., 4 pl—Am. Phil. Soc’y, April 16, 1875. —The Whopper Lode, Gunnison County, Colo. 10 pp.—Am. Inst. Min. Engin., Aug., 1880. —Some Copper Deposits of Carroll County, Md. 8 pp., 1 pl—Am. Inst. Min. Engin., Aug., 1880. A Conyenient Device to be Applied to the Hand Compass. 1 p.—Am. Phil. Soc’y, Dec. 5, 1884. —The Approaches to a Theory of the Causes of Magnetic Declination. 16 pp.—Am. Phil. Soc’y, Apr. 6, 1877. —On Improvement inthe Construction of the Hypsometric Aneroid.—Am. Phil. Soc’y, March 2, 1883. —An Exfoliation of Rocks near Gettysburg. 2 pp.—Am. Phil. Soc’y, Dec. 4, 1874. . —Note on the New Geological Map of Europe. 6 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Engin. —Some Supposed Fossils from the Susquehanna River, just South of the Penn- sylvania-Maryland Line. 3 pp., 1 pl.—Proc. Am. Phil. Soc’y XVIII, Sept. 18, 1879. : —Missing Ores of Iron. 12 pp., Ill—vTrans. Am. Inst. Min. Engin., Vol. VI, 1870. —The Peach Botttom Slates of Southeastern York and Southern Lancaster Counties, Penn. 5 pp., 1. pl.—Trans. Am. Inst. Mining Engin., 1883. —A Speculation on Protoplasm. 7 pp.—Am Nat., July, 1876. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 109 —A Mirror for Illuminating Opaque Objects for the Projecting Microscope. 2 pp.—Am. Phil. Soc’y, Feb. 20, 1880. —The Progress of Chemical Theory; Its Helps and Hindrances. 37 pp.— Journ. Franklin Instit., Apr., May and June, 1891. —Mineral Formule. 6 pp.—Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., July 7, 1874. —Notes from the Literature on the Geology of Egypt, and Examination of the Syenitic Granite of the Obelisk which Lieut. Comd’r Gorringe, U.S. N., brought to New York. 27 pp., 4 pl.—Trans. Am. Inst.-Mining Engin., 1883. —Report of Committee on the International Congress of Geologists. 3 pp.— Proc. A. A. A. S., Vol. XX XIX, 1890. —On Certain Trap Rocks from Brazil. 3 pp.—Proc. Acad. Sci., Phila., 1876. —An Unjust Attack. 8 pp.—Am. Geol., Jan., 1889. —The Philadelphia Meeting of the International Congress of Geologists. 10 pp-, Am. Geol., June, 1890. —Report of the Berlin International Geological Congress. 13 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., XXX, December, 1885. —Mesozoic Sandstone of the Atlantic Slope. 9 pp.—Am. Nat., May, 1879. —Archeean-Paleozoic Contact near Philadelphia, Penn. 6 pp., 1 pl.—Proc. A. A.A.S., Vol. XXXIII, Sept., 1884. —Report of the Sub-Committee of the Berlin Congress of Geologists on the Archean. 80 pp. —Crystallization. 11 pp., Ill.—Journal Franklin Inst., Aug., 1885. —Origin of the Lower Silurian Limonites of York and Adams Counties, 6 pp-—Am. Phil. Soc’y, March 19, 1875. —The Northern Serpentine Belt in Chester County, Pa. 8 pp.—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Engin., 1883. —The Persistence of Plant and Animal Life under Changing Conditions of Environment. 13 pp.,—Am. Nat., June, 1890. —International Congress of Geologists, 1886. 109 pp., I pl. —International Congress of Geologists, Reports of the Sub-Committee ap- pointed by the American Committee. 239 pp., 1888. ——Other Short Articles. FRISBIE, Dr. J. F. —-Glacia! Moraines. 16 pp. —Mountain Building and Mountain Sculpture. 13 pp. —The Franconia Flume, the Causes that led to its Formation. 8 pp. — Planet Building. 11 pp., I pl. i 17 pp-, 2 pl. GEIKIE, “Sir ARCHIBALD, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., P:G.S. ——Address to the Geological Section of the British Association. 23 pp. —Address by Sir Archibald Geikie, President of British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1892. 24 pp. —-Progress of the Geological Survey in Scotland. 10 pp.—Proc. Royal Soc’y, Edinburgh, Vol. II, Session 1864-5. -—On the Tertiary Volcanic Rocks of the British Islands. 4 pp.—Proc. Royal Soc’y, Edinburgh, 1866-67. —The History of Volcanic Action during the Tertiary Period in the British Islands (Abstract). 5 pp.—Proc. Royal Soc’y, Edin., 1888. —-Address delivered at the 36th Anniversary Meeting of the Edinburgh Geol- ogical Society. Also Notes for a Comparison of the Volcanic Geology of Cen- tral Scotland with that of Auvergne and the Eifel. 16 pp.—Trans. of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 1869- 70, Vol. II, Part I. —On Modern Denudation. 38 pp-—-Trans. Geol. Soc’y of Glasgow, Vol. III, [Pe Ti —On Denudation now in Progress. 6 pp.—Geol. Mag., Vol. I, No. 6, June, 1868. —Earth Sculpture and the Huttonian School of Geology. The Inaugural Ad- dress Delivered at the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Edinburgh Geological Society, Nov. 6, 1873. I10 LILLE S| OOK INATR OL AGYS OG OG VE —Recent Researches into the Origin and Age of the Highlands of Scotland and the West of Ireland. 19 pp. —-Royal Institute of Great Britain, 1889. ——The Cafions of the Far West.—Ibid., April 6, 1883. 4 pp. —Rock-Weathering, as illustrated in Edinburgh Churchyards. 15 pp., 1 pl.— Proc. Royal Soc’y, Edinburgh, Vol. X., April 19, 1880. —The Ancient Glaciers of the Rocky Mountains. 7 pp.—Am. Nat. Jan. 1881. —The Ice Age in Britain.—Science Lectures for the People. 17 pp. —The Old Man of Hoy. 6 pp., 1 pl.—Report Brit. Assoc., 1871. —On the Old Red.Sandstone of the South of Scotland. 12 pp., 1 pl——Quar- terly Journal Geol. Soc’y, Aug. 1860. —On the Geology of Strath, Skye, (with descriptions of some Fossils from Skye, by T. Wright, M.D.,F.R.S.E.) 36 pp., 1 pl. —The History of Volcanic Action in the Area of the British Isles. 119 pp.— Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. XLVIII, 1892. --On the Supposed Pre-Cambrian Rocks of St. David’s. 66 pp., 3 pl.— Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Aug. 1883. —On the Tertiary Volcanic Rocks of the British Islands. 31 pp., 1 pl. —The Geological Origin of the Present Scenery of Scotland. 21 pp. Ill.— The Journal of Travel and Natural History. —On the Age of the Altered Limestone of Strath, Skye.—13 pp. Ill.—Quart. - Journal Geol. Soc’y, 1888. —Address of the President of the Geological Society of London, Feb. 20, 1891. 126 pp. —The Origin of Coral Reefs. 13 pp. Ill.—Proc. Royal Physical Soc’y. Vol. VIL, p.; 1884. —The “ Pitchstone ” of Eskdale, a retrospect and comparison of Geological Methods. Ibid, Vol V, 1880. GENTH, F. A. —Ueber Nordamerikanische Tellur-und Wismuth-Mineralien. 14 pp.—Jour- nal fiir Praktische Chemie, 1874. —Ueber Lansfordit, Nesquehonit und Pseudomorphosen von Nesquehonit nach Lansfordit. (B. A. Genth und S;' IL) Penfield)” 18 pp.) 1 pl—Zeityiiur Krystallographie, 1890. —Contributions to Mineralogy. 18 pp., 1 pl. Read before Am. Phil. Soc’y, Oct. 2, 1885. —do. 21 pp. Read before Am. Phil. Soc’y, March 18, 1887. —Investigation of Iron Ores and Limestones from Blair and Huntingdon counties, Pa. 26 pp.—Read before the Am. Phil. Soc’y, Feb. 6, 1874. —Contributions to Mineralogy. 6 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Sept. 1889; 4 pp. Jan., 1890. —do. with Crystallographic notes by S. L. Penfield. 9 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Sept., 1890; 10 pp. May, 1891; 6 pp. March, 1892. —On American Tellurium and Bismuth Minerals. 9 pp.—Am. Phil. Soc’y, Aug. 21, 1874. —On Herderite. 7 pp. Read before Am. Phil. Soc’y, Oct. 17, 1884. —On Lansfordite, Nesquehonite, a New Mineral and Pseudomorphs of Nesquehonite after Lansfordite. 17 pp., I pl—Am. Jour. Sci., Feb., 1890. —The Minerals of North Carolina.—Bulletin 74, U.S. G. S. 120 pp. —The Minerals and Mineral Localities of North Carolina. 122 pp.—Geol. of North Carolina, Vol. IJ, 1881. —First Annual Report of Dr. F. A. Genth, Chemist of the Pennsylvanta Board of Agriculture. 32 pp., 1878. —Second Preliminary Report on the Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, with Analyses of Mineral Spring Waters. 38 pp. —Ueber einige Tellur-und Vanad-Mineralien. 13 pp.—Zeit. fiir Krystal- lographie, etc., 1877. —On the Equivalent of Cerium by the late Dr. Charles Wolf. 10 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., May, 1868. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. vt —Contributions to Mineralogy, No. 54; (with Crystallographic Notes by S. L. Penfield. 9 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Nov., 1892. —On Penfieldite, a new species. 1 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Sept., 1892. | —-Mineralogische Mittheilungen, by F. A. 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Sci., Jan., 1890. —On Two Minerals from Delaware Co., Pa. 3 pp.—Proc. Acad. Sci. of Phila., 1889. —Contributions from the Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. GILBERT, G. K. —The Colorado Plateau Region considered as a Field for Geological Study. 27 pp.-—Am. Jour. Sci., July and August, 1876. —The Strength of the Earth’s Crust. 5 pp.—Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. Vol. I, 1889. —The History of the Niagara River. 24 pp., 8 pl.—Sixth An. Rept. of Com. of State Reservation at Niagara, 1889. —The Work of the International Congress of Geologists. 22 pp.—Am. Jour. Sci., Dec., 1887. —The Sufficiency of Terrestial Rotation for the Deflection of Streams. 6 pp.— Nat. Acad. Sci., 1884. GorRDON, C. H. ; —Observations on the Keokuk Species of Agaricocrinus. 7 pp., I pl.—Am. Geol., May, 1890. —On the Brecciated Character of the St. Louis Limestone. 9 pp., 2 pl.—Am. Nat., April, 1890. —Proceedings of the lowa Academy of Sciences for 1887, 1889, 1889. I01 pp. —Quarternary Geology of Keokuk, Iowa, with Notes on the Underlying Rock Structure. 8 pp., 2 pl. GRANT ULY. S. —Notes on the Molluscan Fauna of Minnesota. 4 pp.—16th An. Rept. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, Minn. (1887). —Account of a Deserted Gorge of the Mississippi near Minnehaha Falls. 6 pp., I pl. —Conchological Notes. 12 pp.—14th An. Rept. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, Minn. —The Stratigraphical Position of the Ogishke Conglomerate of Northeastern Minnesota. 8 pp.—Am. Geol. Vol. X, July, 1892. —Report of Geological Observations made in Northeastern Minnesota during the Summer of 1888. 67 pp.—Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn.; part IV. 17th An. Rept. IAUNwibs (Ce \e —Notes on a Geological Excursion into Central Wisconsin. 18 pp., I pl. Hares THE - JOURNAL -OF (GROLOGY: HALLOCK, WILLIAM. —Chemical Action between Solids. 4 pp—Am. Jour. Sci., May, 1889. —The Flow of Solids or the Behavior of Solids under High Pressure. 8 pp.— Issa, We So (Ge Sug Nos 55, —Ueber die Lichtgeschwindigkeit in verschiedenen Quartzflachen. 3 pp.— Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 1881. Bd. XII. —Preliminary Report of Observations at the Deep Well at Wheeling, W. Va.— Proce ALAR VAG |S.) LoOIs: vols eles HARDEN, JOHN Hy., M. E. —Rock Salt Deposit of Huron and Bruce ‘Come 3s, Ontario, Canaria. 6. pp.— Proc. Engineer’s Club. Phila., Vol. I, No. 3 —The Construction of Maps in Relief, 33 pp., Il., 1 pl—Trans. Am. Inst. Min. Eng., 1887. HARPE, PHIL. DE LA. —Description des Nummulites appartenant ala Zone supérieure des Falaises de Biarritz. 20 pp., 1 pl.Bulletin de la Société de Borda, 1879. —Une Echelle des Nummulites ou Tableau de la distribution stratigraphique des Especes de Nummulites. 5 pp.—* Verhandlungen” de la Soc. Helv. des Sc. 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F., M.A. “Aspects of Imperial Federation. 8 pp. —Scientific Aspects of Imperial Unity—European Mail. —The Recognition of Geography. 7 pp. (Further acknowledgments of pamphlets and of specimens will be made in the next issue.) ARCHEAN LOGICAL MAP SHOWING PRE-CA Compiled trom ( HE L IRIAN AN | ial Maps of U ° Pas ee —— 0 MY | j Fe f a oe PAn a) i Pe 2y \ an, 1: LS que SHG NS Keweenawan POST-ALKONEIAN ean | cam) AKE SUPERIOR REGION HUSISRUAS {D CRYSTALLINE ROCKS. S.and Canadian Surveys. The Original Huronian. The Marquette —Menominee Tron -Bearuzg Schasts. The Wtsconsur Valley ‘Slates. The Penokee Iron-Bearing Schists. The StLouis Slates. The Chippewa Valley Quartxites The Black River Iron-Bearing Schists. Tne Baraboo Q@uartxites The Stoux Quartxites. The Aniniilite Series. Folded Schistsof Canada, PPrS>roypyYprppYr,r Spal SS i SS = 5eCstOUPEND > 100 ISO STAT. ML, += ———————— THE foOlieN a OF CEOLOGY FEBRUARY-MARCH, 1893. AUN) IBUISWOIRMCANL SSI Ole (Oe Tse IANS, SUIS RIOR REGION TO CAMBRIAN TIME.” (WITH PLATE I.) THE ancient formations south of Lake Superior may be grouped into five great divisions: the Basement Complex, the Lower Huronian, the Upper Huronian, the Keweenawan, and the Lake Superior Sandstone. These five divisions are separated by unconformities of great magnitude, two of them at least being of the first order. According to the classification adopted by the United States Geological Survey, the Basement Complex is Archean; the Lower Huronian, Upper Huronian and Kewee- nawan constitute the Algonkian for this region; and the Lake Superior Sandstone is Cambrian. The Basement Complex.—The characteristic rocks of the Basement Complex are (1) light colored granites and gneissoid granites, and (2) dark colored finely foliated or banded gneisses or schists. These are cut by various basic and acid intrusives, many of which are not different from eruptives ‘In this very general article no attempt will be made to give references to the many authors from whom facts are taken. To give full credit for all information used would require citations from scores of papers. The writer gives a summary of the literature of the Lake Superior Region in Bulletin 86 of the U. S. Geol. Survey. Many of the problems considered have no definite answers as yet. The aim of the article is to give a summary of the very limited knowledge available on a sub- ject that has not before been considered, because the data were not at hand upon which to base any reliable conclusions. VoL. I.—NO. 2. E =a iS Pl os Hieweenan Pe. 7h IN ; ge v Wi \ En aon Ni \ am Ny Winnebage 1 b = =a St ARCHEAN K IAN | Pereina van POST ALKON IAN, i\ GEOLOGICAL 2 } ; 5 OGICAL MAP SUPERIOR REGION ND CRYSTALLINE ROCKS. | ‘and Canadian Surveys. at 4 i ISO STAT MI. \ HURONIAN PPrryy>yr>> Sass2337777 Zeoraueun onion. The Marquette ~Menorninen far vant The StLouts Slates 2 ei as Valle Jucartxtt es Te Oral Bearing Sots ane rao @uartxis The Antmnsiue Series: Folded Schists of Carica SI om ME v _ saw, hoe boa TTA | THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. found in the later series, with which they are doubtless in part continuous. The granites and gneissoid granites are placed together, be- cause between the two are constant gradations. If one speaks accurately and includes among granites only those rocks which are completely massive, the gneissoid granites include the greater part of the granitic rocks; for in large exposures it is usually possible to find some evidence of foliation. The granit- oid areas are of greatly varying sizes, running from small patches to those many miles in diameter. When everywhere surrounded by the schistose division of the Basement Complex, they frequently. have oval or ovoid forms. In nearing the outer border of the granitoid areas, the foliation often becomes more and more prominent, and near the edge of an area the rock fre- quently passes into a well laminated gneiss. The schistose rocks include fine grained hornblende - gneisses, mica- gneisses, chlorite- gneisses, and various green schists, for- merly supposed to be sedimentary, but now known to be greatly modified basic and acid igneous rocks. These schists have usually a dark green or black color, are strongly foliated, and the variations in strike and dip of this foliation, within small areas, is very great. Not infrequently the schistose rocks are traced by gradations into massive igneous rocks. The contacts between the schistose division and the granit- oid division of the Basement Complex are usually those of in- trusion, the granitoid rocks being the later. In passing from a schistose to a granitoid area, small pegmatitic looking veins of the granite are first found. In going onward these veins become more numerous and, after a time, unmistakable dikes of granite appear, which multiply in number and size in approaching the granite area, until the granite is found in great bosses. Here we have perhaps a nearly equal quantity of schistose and granitoid rocks, and in this intermediate zone the schists may be found as a mass of blocks within the granite, sometimes at but small dis- tances from their original positions, the whole having frequently a somewhat conglomeratic appearance. However, these pseudo- HISTORICAL SKETCH—LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. 1 15 conglomerates, so well described by Lawson, grade more or less rapidly on the one hand into the schists, and on the other into the solid gneissoid granite. The complete change may occur within a short distance, or it may take a mile or more. The Basement Complex is then composed of intricately inter- locking areas of granitoid rocks and schistose rocks. Moreover, all of these rocks are completely crystalline. None of them show any unmistakable evidence of having been derived from sedimentaries, but many can be traced with gradations into massive rocks, and therefore the greater proportion of them are igneous, if a completely massive granular structure be proof of such an origin. The Basement Complex is the most widespread of any of the Lake Superior systems, and it doubtless runs under all later for- mations to a greater or lesser distance. That it is continuous un- der all such formations can not be asserted, for while it was once so, it is possible, perhaps even probable, that in places, as a con- sequence of sedimentation and folding, the Basement Complex has been so deeply buried, that fusion has locally resulted. It is even possible that such fused material is a partial source of the later volcanic eruptions. Before the earliest sedimentary rocks were deposited, the Basement Complex was subjected to enormous orographic forces, which folded and sheared the rocks in a most intricate manner. Accompanying the great orographic movements, which undoubt- edly occupied a vast period of time, were intrusions of various deep seated igneous rocks, and also doubtless their volcanic equivalents were extruded. Subsequent to, and during the oro- graphic movements, atmospheric forces were at work. Erosion continued long after the mountain-making folding had ceased, and, for much of the Lake Superior region, reduced the Base- ment Complex nearly to a plain or base level. As evidence of this may be cited the fact that, at the end of the erosion inter- val, the Basement Complex, consisting of differing lithological materials, and therefore having a variable resisting power, did not vary in altitude more than a few hundred feet for long dis- 116 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. tances. Whether this denudation extended everywhere deep enough to remove all surface volcanic material, and to leave only deep seated igneous material, is undetermined. At the beginning of the Lower Huronian time, the Basement Complex was, in the Lake Superior region, a universal system. The Lower Huronian—After the forces of erosion had nearly exhausted themselves, there was the first advance of the sea over the Lake Superior region of which we have any evidence, as a result of which the Lower Huronian was deposited. The well-known characteristic rocks of the Lower Huronian, are (1) conglomerates, quartzites, quartz-schists and mica- schists, (2) limestones, (3) various ferruginous schists, (4) basic and acid eruptives, which occur both as deep seated and as effu- sive rocks. The order given, with the exception of the erup- tives, is the order of age from the base upward. The inferior formation is usually a quartzite or a feldspathic quartzite. Where metamorphism has been severe it passes into a quartz-schist, mica-schist or gneiss. The lowest horizon of the formation is in places a coarse conglomerate, and this when metamorphosed may become a conglomerate-schist. This con- glomerate is of two types, depending upon the character of the underlying formation, which is here granitic and there schistic. The limestone formation, when at its maximum, is of very con- siderable thickness. The limestone is magnesian and so very crystalline as to make the name marble appropriate. It fre- quently contains a considerable amount of chert. In places it may be divided into two horizons, one of which is nearly pure marble, and the other nearly pure chert, 2 /At other timeshtle limestone becomes very siliceous by a mingling of fragmental quartz, while zones of wholly fragmental material may occur. These impure phases are often at the lower part of the limestones, where they may be considered as a transition from the under- lying formation. The formation overlying the limestone is usually known as the iron- bearing member, since it contains all the ore bodies of the Lower Huronian. It has varied aspects, but the different varieties grade into one another both vertically and HISTORICAL SKETCH—LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. 117 laterally, so that when one becomes familiar with them, the rocks of the formation may invariably be recognized. Here are included hematitic and magnetitic schists, cherts, jaspers, ferruginous carbonates, and other forms. The formation always differs from the limestone in carrying a very considerable amount of iron, and it differs from the quartzite in being largely, and sometimes wholly, a chemical or organic sediment, rather than a mechani- cal one. The three members of the Lower Huronian are not often seen in a single section. This may be due to lack of exposures, but in some cases is undoubtedly due to the absence of one or more of the formations themselves. In the Lower Huronian, basic eruptive rocks are abundant, and locally cover considerable areas. Not infrequently acid eruptives also occur. These eruptives include both contempor- aneous volcanics and subsequent intrusives. If the Keewatin of Lawson about Rainy Lake and the Lake of the Woods is Lower Huronian, great granitic masses have been intruded into this series northwest of Lake Superior. Equivalent to the Lower Huronian series of the north shore of Lake Huron are placed the following iron-bearing districts: Lower Vermillion, Lower Marquette, Felch Mountain, in large part, Lower Menominee, the cherty limestone formation of the Penokee district; and probably the Kaministiquia series of Ontario, and the Black River Falls series of Wisconsin. Whether all of these detached basins were once connected by continuous sediments is unknown, but probably they were. The fragmental material of the Lower Huronian was derived from the Basement Complex. This fragmental formation is usu- ally thin. This doubtless means that the advance of the sea over the Lake Superior region was comparatively rapid. The directions from which the Lower Huronion sea entered, and the extent of its trangression, is at present unknown. By certain of the Canadian geologists it is held that the structural break which exists between the Basement Complex and the Lower Huronian, south of Lake Superior and north of Lake Huron, does not exist 118 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. in the region of Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods, northwest of Lake Superior. If this conclusion be true, the sea did not advance as far as the Lake of the Woods, this district perhaps being above the ocean, and one of the sources of detritus through- out Lower Huronian time. The extent of the Lower Huronian deposits is also uncertain. If the series of the districts above placed in the Lower Huronian, are correctly correlated, Lower Huronian basins occurred in vari- ous places over a great triangular area extending from Black River Falls in Wisconsin, to northeastern Minnesota, and thence east to the north shore of Lake Huron. Doubtless Lower Huronian rocks also occur in the great northern region of Canada, and they may have had a much wider original extent than this, but no data are now available to locate such a possible extension. Of the original thickness of the Lower Huronian deposits we are also ignorant. The present thickness has not been deter- mined south of Lake Superior, but according to Logan, on the north shore of Lake Huron, including the interstratified volcanics, the thickness is five thousand feet. At the end of Lower Huronian time, the Lake Superior region was raised above the sea, folded, and subjected to erosion. The orographic movements of this time were very severe, closely crumpling in places the rocks of the Lower Huronian, and induc- ing in them in many places a schistose structure. In other locali- ties, away from the axes of great disturbance, the Lower Huronian rocks were but gently tilted, as is shown by the small discordance in places between them and the succeeding series. In certain localities the areas of great disturbance are but a short distance from those of comparative quiet. The denudation was deep enough to wholly remove the entire series over wide areas, and to cut to unknown depths into the Basement Complex itself. As has been stated, the Lower Huronian has an estimated thick- ness of about one mile on the north shore of Lake Huron, and in different localities varies from this thickness to entire absence, depending mainly upon the differing deundation. This variabil- HISTORICAL SKETCH—LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. 119 ity may possibly be due in part to highlands of the Basement Complex, which were not covered by the Lower Huronian sea until the period was well advanced. Of the extent of the series at the end of the erosion preceding Upper Huronian deposition, little has been determined, since later erosions have undoubtedly removed large areas of the series, and therefore its present dis- tribution is not a safe guide to its distribution at the close of the erosion interval referred to. The Upper Huroman.—At the close of the long period of erosion which followed the Lower Huronian deposition, the water once more advanced upon the Lake Superior region, and the Upper Huronian series was deposited. Lithologically this series consists of conglomerates, quartzites, graywackes, graywacke-slates, shales, mica-schists, ferruginous slates, cherts, jaspers, ferruginous schists and igneous rocks, including both lava flows and volcanic fragmentals, as well as basic and acid intrusives. The series, as a whole, is very much less crystalline than the Lower Huronian, although locally the shales and graywackes have been transformed into mica-schists, and even into gneisses. The Upper Huronian immediately about Lake Superior is divisible into three formations, a lower slate, an iron-bearing for- mation, and an upper slate, the basis of separation being that of mechanical and non-mechanical detritus. The inferior formation is mainly a quartzose slate or shale, but locally it passes into a quartzite, while the basal horizon is frequently a conglomerate. The nature of this conglomerate varies greatly, depending upon the character of the underlying formation, which, in some areas, is the Basement Complex, and in others the Lower Huronian. In the first case the slates may rest upon the gneissoid granite, upon the schists, or upon the junction of the two. The basal conglomerate corresponds in its character, being a recomposed granite or granite-conglomerate, a recomposed schist or schist conglomerate, or finally a combination of the two. When the lowest member of the Upper Huronian rests upon the Lower Huronian series, the underlying formation may be 120 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. any one of the three formations of the Lower Huronian. Asa consequence the basal conglomerate may consist mainly of the fragments of any one of these formations, or of all of them together. Not infrequently detritus, derived from the Basement Complex, is mingled with that of Lower Huronian origin. How- ever, as a consequence of the resistant character of the jaspery iron-bearing formation of the Lower Huronian and of mining operations, the discovered contacts are most frequently between the Upper Huronian and this iron-bearing formation. In the basal conglomerate or recomposed rock at these points, the characteristic fragments are chert, jasper, and other ferruginous materials, and it is locally so rich in iron as to bear ore-bodies. The uppermost horizon of the lower slate of the Upper Huronian in the Penokee district is a pure, persistent layer of quartzite. The central mass of the formation is a graywacke or graywacke- slate, passing in places into a shale or sandstone. Above the lower slate is the iron-bearing member, consisting of various ferruginous rocks, including cherts, jaspers, magnetite- actinolite-schists, iron ores, and ferruginous carbonates. It has been shown that all these varieties have been mainly derived directly or indirectly by transformation from an original lean, iron-bearing carbonate, which was of chemical or organic origin, or a combination of both. Mingled with these non-mechanical sediments is a greater or lesser quantity of mechanical detritus. Above the iron-bearing formation is the upper slate forma- tion. This is mainly composed of shales frequently carbon- aceous or graphitic, slates, graywackes and mica-schists, often garnetiferous and staurolitic. The mica-schists are usually toward the upper part of the formation. The stages of the transformation between these crystalline rocks and _ plainly fragmental detritus have been somewhat fully made out . The lower slate formation is of variable thickness, but is usually less than a thousand feet. The iron-bearing formation is also of very variable thickness, its maximum being perhaps about the same as that of the lower slate, and from this it varies to dis- appearance, the horizon being usually represented, however, by HISTORICAL SKETCH—LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. 121 carbonaceous and ferruginous shales and slates. The upper slate formation includes the great mass of the Upper Huronian series. Its maximum thickness is more than ten thousand feet. In certain areas, during Upper Huronian time, there was great volcanic activity, as a result of which, peculiar formations were piled up, wholly different from any of the ordinary mem- bers of the series. Also this volcanic activity greatly disturbed the regular succession, so that for each of the volcanic districts an independent succession exists, the sedimentary and volcanic formations being intimately interlaminated. The two areas which are best known are the Michigamme iron district north of Crystal Falls and the east end of the Penokee district. Similar volcanics also occur in the Marquette district. In the Michigamme iron district is an extensive area of green- stones, greenstone-conglomerates, agglomerates and surface lava flows, many of which are amygdaloidal. In the Penokee district the materials are almost identical. The typical suc- cession for this district extends in unbroken order for fifty miles or more, but east of Sunday Lake this is suddenly dis- turbed by the appearance of the volcanics. The character of the rocks and their order soon becomes so different that if one were not able to trace the change from one into the other, there would be a great temptation to regard the part of the series bearing volcanics earlier than or later than the Penokee series proper. But the continuity of the two cannot be doubted. Thus this occurrence well illustrates that lithological character in pre- Cambrian, as in post-Cambrian time is no certain guide as to relative age. Finally, associated with the Lake Superior Upper Huronian rocks are many later intrusive dikes and interbedded sills, chiefly diabases, gabbros and diorites, but local granitic intrusives also occur, particularly in the Felch Mountain and Crystal Falls districts, and possibly also in the Menominee district. The typical districts in which the Upper Huronian series can be best studied are the Penokee, Marquette, Mesabi and Animikie. Remote from the Lake Superior region proper, the rock series V22 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. which are correlated with the Upper Huronian have not the same successions of formations as in these districts. The Upper Huronian north of Lake Huron has a set of formations which can not be correllated with the formations above given; the same is true of other series to the south which are here placed. The position of these latter as a part of the Upper Huronian must not be considered as a question finally determined, but rather as representing the probability, from the weight of evidence at the present time. It can not be expected that in a great geological basin the same subordinate succession of formations will be everywhere found. However, for the present, regarding all these series as Upper Huronian, this is the most widespread of the Lake Superior pre- Cambrian sedimentary series. It includes a great area, extending from the Sioux quartzites of Dakota on the southwest, to the Huronian rocks north of Lake Huron on the east, and thence far to the north, and from Lake Huron to the Animikie series of the National Boundary west of Lake Superior. Within this area are included the major portion of the Baraboo quartzites of Wisconsin; the major portion of the large area in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the eastern arms of which are the Menom- inee, Felch Mountain, and Marquette iron-bearing districts; the greater part of the Penokee-Gogebic iron-bearing series of Michigan and Wisconsin; the Chippewa quartzites of Wisconsin ; St. Louis slates of Minnesota including the newly developed Mesabi range of Minnesota, and the Animikie series of Thunder Bay, Lake Superior and its westward extension. That most, and perhaps all of these areas were once connected, there can be no reasonable doubt. This broad semicircular zone of Upper Huronian rocks, extend- ing from the National Boundary west of Lake Superior through Ontario, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, to the north Channel of Lake Huron, and thence north to the east side of James Bay, suggests that the transgression of the sea was from the south and east, and that the source of the mechanical detritus is the great expanse of so-called Laurentian rocks west of Hudson HISTORICAL SKETCH—LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. 123 Bay and north of Lake Superior. How far the sea transgressed over this area, and whether it also advanced toward it from the north and west, is unknown. It is probable as the sea advanced from the south, that the great mass of fragmental detritus, mak- ing up the Baraboo and Sioux quartzites, was laid down before the sea had transgressed to what is now the north shore of Lake Superior, and thus would be explained the discrepancy in the parallelism of formation between the Sioux quartzites, Baraboo quartzites, etc., and the districts of Upper Huronian rocks adja- cent to Lake Superior. In this case the advancing ocean was perhaps making its progress by cutting a terrace quite as much as by subsidence. However, there is reason to believe that the area included within the west end of the Lake Superior Basin, z. e., from the Animikie series to the Mesabi range, and thence to the Penokee series was submerged practically at the same time. For here we have three great formations of like character in identical order. The lowest formation, the quartzite and quartz-slate with conglomerates derived from the Basement Complex and the Lower Huronian, are the first deposit of the advancing sea. After this came a deepening of the water, when the calcareous and ferruginous formation, now constituting the iron-bearing member, was laid down. Then perhaps as a consequence of the upbuilding of this formation, came a shallowing of the water and the deposition of the great thickness of clayey sediments of the Upper Huronian. Since the last formation must have been deposited in shallow water, and yet is of great thickness, the bed of the ocean was probably subsiding during the remainder of Upper Huronian time. At the end of the deposition of the Upper Huronian rocks, the Lake Superior region rose above the sea, and the atmospheric forces once more set to work. The orographic movement follow- ing the Upper Huronian, like that following the Lower Huronian, was locally intense, but in general the folding was of a gentle character. Along narrow axes the plications were so severe as to give the Upper Huronian rocks a foliated structure and com- 124 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. pletely crystalline schistose or gneissic character, but for the most part the changes in the Upper Huronian rocks are those of cementation and metasomatism. As with the Lower Huronian areas of intense plication, they are sometimes but short distances from those in which the rocks have been merely tilted. How deep the Upper Huronian denudation went it is impos- sible to say. We only know that at a maximum, the Upper Huronian rocks are now 13,000 feet thick, and in certain other places are entirely absent, the higher members disappearing first and the lower members last. Thus the difference of the Upper Huronian denudation is measured by 13,000 feet. To this must be added the unknown thickness of the Upper Huronian rocks, which have been wholly swept away, and the thickness of the Lower Huronian and Basement Complex, which were cut at this time- @he- thickness represented by these three elements is unknown, but it is probably great. Of the outer limits of the Upper Huronian transgression, we are as ignorant as of the preceding ones, but certain it is that it had an extent to the outer areas mentioned as belonging to this series. Beyond these limits no knowledge is available. The original extent to the east, south and west of the Upper Huronian will probably never be determined, since the ancient rocks are covered by the Cambrian and post-Cambrian sediments. Whether the transgression extended over the Great Northern area of Canada to the Paleozoic deposits will doubtless be ascertained when this vast region is studied in detail. The Keweenawan.—Again a change of conditions occurred, and a great flood of basic volcanics, in beds of enormous thick- ness were poured out. Later these were followed by more thinly bedded volcanics. At about the same time a portion, at least, of the Lake Superior region became immersed in the sea, since in places the basement lavas of the Keweenawan are interstratificd with sandstone and conglomerates. The Keweenaw series is composed lithologically of gabbros, diabases, porphyrites, amygdaloids, felsites, quartz-porphyries, etc., and of sandstones and conglomerates. The basic and acid HISTORICAL SKETCH—LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. 125 rocks constituting the series are mainly surface flows. The gab- bro flows are often of immense thickness. The diabase flows are usually much thinner, and frequently pass in their upper parts into porphyrites and amygdaloids. Many flows are porphyritic or amygdaloidal throughout. The beds of quartz-porphyry and felsite are abundant in certain districts, but usually have no great lateral extent, but while a single flow may be traced but a little way, frequently a group of flows of the same general character may have a great extent and thickness. But even the groups of flows cannot be regarded as general formations for the whole of the Lake Superior basin. Since the number and thickness of the volcanic beds as well as the detritals vary greatly, the Keweenaw series as a whole is widely variable in different districts in its character and thick- ness. Structurally, Irving has divided the series into two parts, a lower division, in which eruptives are present, and an upper . division, in which eruptives are absent. In any one section of the Keweenawan, at the lower part of the lower division, are generally found numerous volcanic flows, with few or no detrital beds. In passing toward the middle of the series the sandstones and conglomerates become more and more numerous and of greater thickness. Still higher the sandstones and conglomerates become predominant, and finally volcanic products disappear, the upper ten or fifteen thousand feet of the Keweenaw series being wholly composed of mechanical detritus. A given detrital bed varies from a mere seam of narrow local extent to thick beds of sandstone and conglomerate, one of which has been traced by Marvine for more than one hundred miles. The most gen- eral detrital formation is the upper sandstone and conglomerate. The Keweenawan rocks extend about the entire area of the Lake Superior basin. They appear upon the east shore of Lake Superior, cover a large area of Keweenaw Point, northern Wis- consin, eastern and northeastern Minnesota, and a great area about Lake Nipigon. A similar set of volcanics, occupying a like stratigraphical position, is also known adjacent to Hudson Bay, and this may be a contemporaneous series. 126 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. The Keweenawan is the thickest of the series about Lake Superior, its maximum being estimated by Irving at the Montreal river to be fifty thousand feet. From this thickness it varies to nothing. This vast quantity of material does not, however, of necessity mark a period longer or perhaps even as long as the Lower Huronian or Upper Huronian, for the greater part of it~ is of igneous origin. The lava flows in their extent and thick- ness are to be compared with the great volcanic plateaux of the far West, rather than with local volcanoes such as Vesuvius, or the local volcanoes of the Upper Huronian and Lower Huronian. Associated with the lavas no volcanic fragmental material has been as yet discovered. The source of the lavas of the Keweenawan is beyond the scope of this paper. It was, however, suggested that the fusion of a portion of the Basement Complex, and even Lower Huron- ian, may have in part produced the deep-seated magmas, the extrusion of which produced the Keweenawan lavas. In large measure the sandstones and conglomerates derived their materials from the volcanics of the series, but a lesser quan- tity came from earlier series. This latter is particularly true of the great detrital formation constituting the topmost member of the Keweenawan. Partly because fragments derived from the fel- sites and porphyries are more resistant than those from the basic rocks, acid pebbles are relatively abundant in the conglomerates. The fact that erosion was contemporaneous with eruption for much of Keweenawan time is to be noted. Certainly, when the period was well inaugurated, most of the Lake Superior basin was normally below the sea or near tide water. Many of the eruptions may have been sub-aqueous. Here and there volcanic masses of such magnitude were built up as to rise above the water, and upon such areas, the sea at the base, and the air and rain above, immediately began their course of destruction. The acid and more viscous lavas may have formed the more promi- nent elevations, and thus the attack was here more vigorous. This may partly explain the predominance of the acid pebbles in the conglomerates. HISTORICAL SKETCH—LAKE SUPERIOR REGION. 127 This great volcanic period was doubless one of unstable equilibrium, the lithosphere falling here and rising there. One of the final movements was the production of the Lake Superior synclinal. This synclinal movement affects not only the Keweenawan rocks, but the lower series, and in areas in which the unconformity between the Upper Huronian-and the Kewee- nawan is not great, there is such a likeness in strike and dip of the two series as to suggest, at first, that the two are conform- able. It is only as the contacts between them are followed for some distance, and the Keweenawan is seen to be now in contact with one member of the Upper Huronian, and now with another, that it is perceived that between the two there is an uncon- formity. What proportion of the Keweenawan had accumulated before this Lake Superior synclinal began it is impossible to say. Pos- sibly somewhere near the center of the Lake Superior basin were the larger foci, from which the great extrusions of lava occurred, and here a simultaneous sinking went on, such as is usual asa result of the upbuilding of a mountainous mass of volcanic material. This suggestion, if true, would also partly explain the apparent absence of volcanic fragmental material which naturally would accumulate near these foci. Nowhere are the Keweenawan rocks so closely folded as to give them a schistose structure or a metamorphic character. Their induration is almost wholly a process of cementation. The Cambrian Transgression—At the close of Keweenawan deposition the Lake Superior region was again raised above the sea, and the pre-Cambrian erosion continued until the enormous thickness of Keweenawan deposits was wholly truncated. What must have been mighty mountains were reduced to mere stumps, or to base level. Following this denudation, the sea once more transgressed upon the land, and the horizontal Lake Su- perior sandstone was deposited. It now occupies many of the bays about Lake Superior. It once was much thicker, and per- haps covered all but the highest points of land. Certainly it or an overlying formation once was at least one thousand feet higher 128 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. than the level of Lake Superior, but it has since been almost completely removed, so that it occurs only in patches within the depressions of the older rocks. Since Cambrian time no important orographic movements nor outbursts of volcanic material have occurred in the Lake Superior region, consequently the rocks have received little sub- sequent alteration. To these facts is due the possibility of out- lining the pre-Cambrian history of this area with greater fullness than has been done in areas in which later disturbances have obscured the early history. C. R. Van HIsEeE. THE GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN OHIO: In Ohio, as in other portions of the Mississippi basin, clear and unmistakable evidence of discontinuity in the drift deposi- tion has long been recognized. Whittlesey, Newberry and Orton were among the first to announce the occurrence of buried soils in the North American drift, and they each drew illustrations from Southwestern Ohio. A few years later Profes- sor Chamberlin discovered evidences of late advances in which the outline of the ice-sheet was very different from that of the glacial boundary. He also observed that the aspect of the drift is much fresher than in the outlying earlier drift. He further noted the evidence of valley erosion of considerable amount effected in the interval between the formation of two moraines, or more accurately two sets of moraines, in Western Ohio, the oldest of which is much younger than the earliest drift sheet, as will be seen below. My own studies, carried on under the direc- tion of Professor Chamberlin, have brought out more fully the nature and value of these and other intervals which exist in that region. No less than nine of the twelve criteria for discrimination between glacial epochs set forth by Professor Salisbury in the opening number of this JouRNAL have been found, viz.: (1) Buried soils. (2) Buried fossiliferous silts. (3) Differential weathering. (4) Differential subaérial erosion. (5) Excava- tion of valleys between successive depositions of drift. (6) Changes in the course of ice-currents and in the outline of the ice margin. (7) Superposition of drift of different physical constitution. (8) Varying altitudes of the land. (9) Varia- tions in vigor of ice action. Although the present state of knowledge of the Ohio drift is far from being as complete as one could desire, it seems profitable to review such evidence as throws light upon the value of the several intervals which mark the glacial succession in that state. In the western portion of 129 130 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. : oO) Harts vty XY = i i estpprt ie and Versailles FL ‘ d Sg i: lernan aus &, e : ingsland®y4 Decatu GB Haralton- Spenjeewil ley 53 aya yi" ee te i ryville Tee Fra nkithN MiddieTow NON -Lebangyt}: acs oe Fi ng E x MAP OF TH i}! Boveland Yi 1 ' MAUMEE-MIAMI GLACIER BY FRANK LEVERETT g $0 sto “Scale of Miles GEACTAL SUCCESSION IN O77TO. 131 EXPLANATION OF MAp.— This map was designed for another purpose, and hence includes only a portion of the district under discussion, though it repre- sents the principal features herein discussed. Certain features, not discussed at this time, beach lines, eskers, esker troughs, etc., appear on the map. The shaded portions of the map represent moraines, the shading being graduated to the strength of the moraine. Arrows indicate the position and bearing of striz. Continuous lines are used to indicate the beaches of the Maumee basin and the south-western outlet of the lake which formed them. The second beach has not been fully traced, and is therefore incompletely represented. For the same reason the fourth and later beaches are not repre- sented. Esker troughs are bounded by broken lines. The eskers which lie in them are indicated by continuous straight lines. The boundaries between upland and lowland tracts in southern Ohio are indicated by dotted lines. The glacial boundary, indicated by a broken line, appears for a short distance in the vicinity of Cincinnati. the state there is a more complete and more easily deciphered record of the glacial succession than in the eastern portion, since the later advances there left a portion of the earlier drift uncovered. Our remarks will, therefore, relate chiefly to that district. The full series of moraines formed by the Great Miami ice lobe, together with portions of the outer moraines of the adjoin- ing East White River lobe on the west, and of the Scioto lobe on the east, are shown on the accompanying map. Outside the outer moraine of these lobes there is a glaciated district extend- ing southward beyond the limits of the map in the main, its southern margin being the glacial boundary which lies fifteen to forty miles south from this moraine. That a long interval elapsed between the deposition of this outlying drift sheet and the formation of the outermost frontal moraine is shown below. Attention is called to it at this point, since it furnishes a con- venient landmark in our discussion. The drift to the north of this moraine will be called, for convenience, by the general term, the later drift, while that to the south will be called the earlier drift. Both drifts have a somewhat complex history, and will be subdivided further on. The earlier drift. Yor a few miles back from the glacial boundary in Northern Kentucky and in the: hilly districts of 132 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. Highland, Adams and Brown counties, Ohio, there is a discon- tinuous or patchy deposit of drift, consisting in places only of scattering bowlders. In other places it consists of a clayey or sandy deposit, in which a few erratics are imbedded. In still others, notably at Split Rock and along Middle creek, west of Burlington, Kentucky, it consists of cemented coarse gravel. Only occasionally in the border portion is there a deposit of thoroughly commingled drift or typical till such as characterizes the thicker drift sheet immediately north. The attenuation seems due more largely to original deposition than to subsequent erosion, Over the greater part of this earlier drift district back from the attenuated border one finds a nearly continuous deposit of till ranging from a few feet up to one hundred feet or more in thickness. It displays little or no aggregation in morainic knolls or ridges. The greatest thickness is found in filled-up valleys or in depressions, though the uplands in places carry as much as fifty feet of drift. Where less than twenty feet in thickness this drift sheet consists in the main of a yellow till. Where the drift has greater thickness a blue till is commonly found beneath the yellow. The blue till abounds in joints or irregular fissures filled with yellow or oxidized clay, a feature which is rare in the later drift sheet, and may, perhaps, constitute an important line of evidence as to the age. Both the yellow and the blue till are harder than those of the newer drift. The indurated char- acter of this earliest drift sheet is apparently due to a partial cementation with lime, the drift being highly charged with a calcareous rock flour, a glacial grist. The earlier drift seems to have been deposited in this district without great abrasion of the rock surface. No striae have been found, though repeated search was made for them. (In districts further west strie are occasionally found beneath the earlier drift). ~Between the blue till and the underlying rock there are frequent exposures of a few feet of earthy material having the appearance of residuary clay, or, if this be absent, a very rotten rock surface is usually found. In one village (Mt. Oreb) well GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN OHIO. 133 sections are reported to have passed through a black mucky clay, probably a preglacial soil, immediately beneath the blue till and a few feet above the rock surface. This feeble abrasion is thought to be due to lack of vigor in the ice-movement. The attenuated border is apparently due to the same lack of vigor and to a comparatively short occupancy of the region by the ice-sheet. The lack of vigor in this earlier invasion is in striking contrast with the vigor of the invasion which produced the outer moraine of the Miami and Scioto lobes, there being numerous exposures of striation in the district immediately north of that moraine, while the moraine itself bears evidence that the ice-sheet had great shoving power. There is a possibility that this earlier drift sheet embraces two distinct periods of deposition. Evidence in support of this -view is cited by Professor Orton in his report on Clermont county, Ohio (the county bordering the Ohio river just above Cincinnati), viz., that a buried soil and deposit of bog iron occur at the junction between the yellow and blue tills. From Professor Orton’s account it would appear that no marked oxida- tion of the surface of the underlying blue till had occurred before the yellow till was deposited. We infer from this that the interval of deglaciation may have been comparatively brief, though it is possible that swampy conditions, such as prevail in the production of bog iron, prevented oxidation during a pro- longed period. Inasmuch as Professor Orton is a careful observer and cautious writer, I do not feel free to question the evidence he cites, but my examinations in this district have not confirmed his evidence, so far as the location of the soil bed at this particular horizon is concerned. I have found testimony as to the occurrence of buried wood at or near this horizon, but not of soil beds. Possibly Professor Orton considers the occur- rence of wood good evidence of an old land surface, but in view of the fact that wood may be incorporated in the drift as a part of the glacial debris I have not thought this a sure evidence. In the lists given in the Ohio reports, Dr. Newberry cites instances of wood to prove the existence of a ‘forest bed,” and forest 134 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. bed and soil are terms which are used interchangeably in the Ohio Geological Reports. It ought also to be stated in this connec- tion that a few miles to the north a buried soil occurs beneath the till, but it lies within the district covered by a later invasion of the ice, and the horizon is, I am convinced, above that of the one in question. There is also a soil above the yellow till of this earlier drift sheet which is buried by a silt deposit, as described below. I feel, therefore, that it is necessary to refer to different horizons the instances that have been reported from south-western Ohio. Deglaciation interval with development of a soil attended by oxidation, leaching and erosion of the earlier adrift sheet. Except where erosion has removed it a capping of silt several feet in thickness is found upon the surface of this till sheet. It is clearly of much later age than the till, being separated from it by a sufficient interval for the development of a soil, and for a large amount of oxidization and leaching and erosion. This silt is discussed below. The soil which was developed on this till sheet does not commonly show a black color, though exposures of such a soil color are met with in all parts of the district outside the outer moraine. The evidence of a land surface is more generally found in the deep brown color, and weathering or soil-producing disintegration of the upper part of the till. The deep brown changes gradually below to the ordinary yellow color of oxidized till, but at top it terminates abruptly at the base of the over- lying silt. The color of the silt being much lighter than that of this brown soil the contrast is very marked. The deep brown color extends usually to a depth of two feet or more, while dis- coloration extends to six or eight feet. The amount of discolora- tion is somewhat greater than is commonly found at the present surface of the newer drift. Repeated comparisons of the soil in the two districts lead to the conviction that this older drift sheet had been exposed as a land surface for a longer time before the silt was laid upon it than has the outer moraine of the newer drift up to the present date. The same conclusion is reached GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN OH7O. 135 upon comparing the amount of leaching in the two districts. In the earlier drift sheet it is rare to get a response with acid within six to eight feet of the surface, whereas in the newer drift the leaching has seldom been carried to so great a depth as six feet. It seems clear from the position and relations of this old surface that the leaching took place before its burial. Concerning the amount of valley erosion accomplished in south-western Ohio during this interval no conclusion was reached. Sufficient time was not given to the study of the region to suc- cessfully eliminate the effects of post-glacial erosion and of erosion accomplished between the deposition of the silt and the invasion which produced the older moraine of the later drift. In eastern Indiana, however, there are exceptionally favorable conditions for determining the amount of erosion accomplished between the deposition of the earlier and later drift sheets, and it is believed that data of some importance can be furnished. Near the head waters of the Whitewater river there is a_ district covered by a thick deposit of drift. We may judge from wells made on interfluvial tracts that the level of the rock surface in that region is no higher than the valley bottoms of the several _headwater tributaries of West Whitewater, and these valleys are, therefore, simply channels cut in the drift. The evidence all Opposes the view that the ridges and valleys are in any way dependent upon preglacial erosion. The valleys along these headwater tributaries of the West Whitewater (Noland’s fork, Green’s fork, and West fork) are conspicuous for their size, their width being one-fourth to one-half mile or more and their depth sixty to one hundred feet. A similar broad valley is occu- pied by the headwaters of East Whitewater, though this stream has, since the later ice-invasion, cut a narrow gorge down into the rock strata. This district of eroded drift was overridden by the western edge of the Miami and the eastern edge of the East White River lobe of the later incursion, but it so happens that the amount of drift deposited does not greatly conceal the outlines of these old valleys, the general thickness of the later drift sheet in this region 136 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. being not more than thirty to forty feet. The outer moraine of the East White River lobe, after following an upland tract west of the West Whitewater northward for some distance, descends, near Cambridge City, into the valley of the West fork of West Whitewater, and after crossing this valley rises near Hagerstown onto elevated upland. The outer moraine of the Miami lobe also, in crossing Noland’s fork, south-east of Cambridge City, descends into and is developed in the valley as well as on the bordering ridges. That the valleys were formed previous to the deposition of this moraine, there can be no doubt, and being made entirely in the drift, as noted above, they show clearly that their excavation must be confined to the interval between the deposition of the earliest drift sheet and that of this moraine. The amount of erosion is several times as great as that accomp- lished by the streams that have traversed this valley since the moraine was laid down. The size of the streams which formed them constitutes an important factor in determining the time required in this excavation. That these interglacial streams were not much larger than those now traversing this region, seems probable from the fact that within a few miles north from the sources of the present streams, the general slope of the country becomes northward, so that drainage would naturally be in that direction, instead of southward along the Whitewater. The erosion here displayed seems, therefore, to indicate the lapse of a longer interval between the deposition of the earliest drift sheet and that of the outer moraine of the later drift, than the time that has elapsed since the formation of that moraine. How much of this interval preceded the silt deposition, it is difficult to determine, because the outer moraine has concealed the silt. Light upon this question should be obtained upon care- ful study of the lower portion of the Whitewater valley and of other valleys lying within the silt-covered district and outside the moraine, but this line of study has not yet been under- taken. Depression accompanied by silt deposition. The silt which is found on the upland outside this moraine, has been discussed at GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN OHTO. 137 some length, ina recent paper.* It need, therefore, be but briefly touched upon here. It is there shown that it forms a practically continuous sheet over the southern portion of the glaciated dis- trict in Ohio and Indiana, and extends to an undetermined dis- tance over the unglaciated districts of Ohio. It also appears on the uplands in Kentucky, south-west of Cincinnati, and may appear further east in that state. It has been found along the margin of the glaciated district in Ohio as far north-east as the vicinity of Newark, but has not been observed farther north and east. The thickness of this silt decreases in passing southward, espe- cially on the interfluvial tracts of south-western Ohio and south- eastern Indiana, a fact which seems to indicate that its source was from the north rather than from flooded conditions of the Ohio river. From evidence gathered in the upper Mississippi region, it is thought to be the correlative of a sheet of glacial drift not exposed to view in these states, or at least not yet discovered. Its thickness in the northern part of the district, next to the outer moraine of the newer drift, is four to six feet or more while on the borders of the Ohio river it scarcely exceeds three feet, and in places is two feet or less. Wherever examined it is found to be thoroughly leached. This fact is thought to be of impor- tance in showing great age, especially on the theory of the glacial origin of the silt, since glacial silts, as well as till, in regions underlain as this region is by limestone, contain a large amount of calcareous material. The amount of depression involved in this subsidence is difficult to determine. As yet such data as have been dis- covered bearing upon the altitude of the land, either previous to or during the depression, are not precise, though it seems probable that the altitude was several hundred feet lower at the maximum of depression than at the present time, while before the depression the drainage appears to have been good, and we may suppose that the altitude was not much lower than at the present time. ™“On the Significance of the White Clays of the Ohio Region.” American Geologist, July, 1892. 138 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. Re-elevation of the land. Between the deposition of this silt and the formation of the outer moraine of the later drift, the altitude appears to have become about as great as at the present, since, as shown below, the gravels deposited at that time along valleys leading away from the ice margin bear witness of vigor- ous drainage. ; Outer moraine of the later drift. Since the position of this moraine is indicated on the accompanying map, it need not be outlined. It should, however, be stated that this moraine is overridden by a later one a few miles east of Hillsboro, Ohio, and has not been recognized in the eastern part of the State. The moraine consists of a ridge of drift one to two miles or more in width, standing, as a rule, but twenty to forty feet above the outer border plain. Its surface is gently undulating, there being but a few sharp knolls or ridges, such as characterize the surface of a later series of moraines described below. It is composed mainly of till, though gravel deposits are not infrequent, either in the low knolls or in beds or pockets incorporated in the body of the drift. Striz are numerous in the district immediately north of this moraine, and since the usual bearing is toward the moraine and not toward the glacial boundary, it seems evident that they were produced at the time of the later invasion. Some strie near Cambridge City, Indiana, appear to be out of harmony with the ice-movement of the later invasion, and may, therefore, be older. The older drift was but partially removed by this later inva- sion, and it is frequently encountered in wells and exposed in bluffs of streams. It is harder and dryer than the newer drift. In a few places, notably at Marshall and Martinsville, in High- land county, and in the vicinity of Wilmington, in Clinton county, a black soil is found at the base of the newer drift. I have seen it only at Wilmington, but Prof. Orton, in his report on Highland county, calls attention to its occurrence at Marshall, and I was told by well diggers of its occurrence in Martinsville. In Wilmington it is exposed in a railway cutting near the pub- lic school building, in the west part of the village. It consists 72% Wedhi a les GLAGIAL SUCCESSTON IN» OFTO: 139 of black muck, several inches in thickness, overlain by till, and ‘underlain bya yellowish sandy clay. The exposure only extends a foot or so beneath the muck, hence but little is known as to the character at this point of the underlying drift sheet. Dr. Welch, of Wilmington, has found pieces of coniferous wood imbedded in the soil in this and other exposures-in that vicinity. He has preserved one piece which shows beaver cuttings. He has also discovered seeds of various plants imbedded in the muck, some of which now flourish only in higher latitudes. The con- tents of this muck-bed seem, therefore, to indicate an inter- glacial climate less genial than the present. In his report on Montgomery county, Ohio, Professor Orton described a buried peat-bed exposed in the bluff of Twin creek, near Germantown. This peat contains the berries and fine twigs of cedar. At the time of Professor Orton’s visit, in 1869, the peat was exposed for a distance of forty rods, and had a thick- ness of twelve to twenty feet. It was underlain by a bed of gravel. At the time of my visit, in 1889, its exposed thickness above the creek bed was about eight feet. It would seem, there- fore, that the peat deposit has a somewhat lower altitude where now exposed than where Professor Orton saw it. Professor G. F’. Wright, who has also seen the peat-bed, has suggested (Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey, No. 58, pp. 96-97) that it occupies a large kettle-hole, and that the higher portions of the peat-bed were near the rim. This peat-bed is overlain to a depth of go to 100 feet by a fresh-looking drift, mainly till, and evidently of the newer drift series. This locality is north of a later moraine than the one under discussion. It is not known whether the peat was accumulated during an interval of deglaciation between the form- ation of that moraine and the later one, or at an earlier time. The later interval seems to have been sufficiently protracted for the accumulation of this amount of peat. Several wells in the east part of Wilmington have passed through a fossiliferous silt between the newer till and an older drift-sheet at a depth of about thirty feet. A few minute gaster- opod shells obtained from this silt by Dr. Welch await specific 140 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. determination. None of them exceed one-sixth of an inch in diameter. Professor Chamberlin reports having observed a bed containing molluscan shells between the newer and older till- sheets at Greensburg, Indiana. (See Third Annual Report WES). Geol. Survey, p. 333). Positive evidence is wanting as to whether these fossiliferous silts are of the same age as the silts which cover the district outside the moraine, but they appear to have about the same horizon. No fossils have been found in the silts outside the moraine. It seems not improbable, however, that if originally present their exposed situation is such that the fossils may have been dissolved and removed by leaching. In the case of streams leading southward from this region of newer drift, careful discrimination is necessary to decide the age of terraces. The coarse, gravelly terraces of the Little Miami valley are referred to the stage when the outer moraine was formed. This valley carried a larger volume of water at that time than in later stages of glaciation, because it was more favor- ably situated for receiving glacial waters. The Great Miami valley was apparently flooded as much during later stages as at this time, and its gravels are largely of the age of the later moraines. The Little Miami gravels are made up, in large part, of coarse material as far down as the mouth of the stream, peb- bles two to four inches in diameter being common. The coarse- ness of the material testifies to a fair gradient, presumably as great as the present altitude of the country affords. The gravels rise to a height of but fifty to one hundred feet above the pres- ent stream, and are near the bottom of the valley trench, for the uplands bordering this stream stand 300 feet or more above its bed. The flood stages, though characterized by a much more vigorous drainage than that which obtained while the silt was being deposited on the bordering uplands, did not reach by nearly 200 feet the limit reached by the silt-depositing waters —a fact which seems to be capable of explanation only on the assumption of great orographic movements. Deglaciation interval in the later drift series. In his reconnais- sance of Western Ohio, some ten years ago, Professor Chamber- GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN OHTO. 141 lin observed decisive evidences of the lapse of a considerable interval between the formation of a moraine lying east of Mad river, near Urbana and Springfield, and the moraines on either side of it, the moraine on the east being one of the later Scioto moraines, while that on the west isa Miami moraine. This older moraine proves to be the outer moraine of the Miami lobe (see map). While this moraine was being formed the Miami lobe occupied the Mad river drainage area, and the waters from the melting ice-lobe were forced toward the south into the Little Miami valley, passing just east of Springfield. The course is well defined, there being a gravel plain leading south along the east side of this moraine. The altitude of this gravel plain is much greater than that of the immediate bluffs of Mad river val- ley, but is lower than the water-shed between the Mad river and the Scioto river system, just east of it. It consequently presents somewhat the appearance of a broad irrigating ditch, following the face of a slope at a considerable altitude above the stream. When the ice had retreated from the Madriver basin the drain- age of the high country to the east of Mad river soon opened channels directly across this gravel plain and the moraine west of it down to the trough in which the river flows. Similar chan- nels were formed by streams leading down to Mad river from the elevated country west of its basin, and a broad valley was opened along the axis of the trough. When a fresh advance of ice occurred the Miami lobe came nearly down to the Mad river valley from the west and covered the upper portion of the west- ern tributaries. Its moraine, in crossing the interglacial valleys, descends into them, but only partially fills some of them, thus repeating the phenomena of the outer moraine, in the White- water valley, as noted above. Similarly, the Scioto lobe tres- passed on some of the eastern tributaries of Mad river, and its moraine partially fills the interglacial valleys. It should, per- haps, be stated that these interglacial valleys do not follow pre- glacial troughs, but instead, have bluffs standing as high as the interfluvial portions of the slopes of the basin. Their excavation began with the retreat of the ice-sheet from the outer Miami 142 LHE, fOURNAL, OF (GEOLOGY: moraine lying east of Mad river. It is difficult to determine the precise amount of excavation accomplished in this interval, since the portions of the valley lying beneath or within the later moraine are partially filled, while the portions lying outside the moraines afforded avenues for the escape of glacial waters, and were probably much enlarged thereby. It seems safe, however, to state that an amount of excavation took place that would require some thousands of years with a drainage system of the size of the present Mad river system, and witha gradient such as the region now affords. It may be added that in regions further west, if our correlations are correct, there are found evidences of the same deglaciation interval, but their discussion does not fall within the scope of this paper. Main morainic system of later adrift. The moraine just re- ferred to (in whose re-entrant angle the Mad river basin lies) belongs to the system mapped and described by Professor Chamberlin, in the Third Annual Report of the U. S. Geol. Survey, as the ‘Terminal Moraine of the Second Glacial Epoch.” As shown by Professor Chamberlin this moraine lies near the glacial boundary in eastern Ohio and north-western Pennsylvania, but farther west it falls short many miles of reaching the glacial boundary. It is a complex system, ‘constituting a belt rather than a single moraine,” there being in places not less than four distinct members. Nearly everywhere in the state it presents a sharply indented surface, a feature which, as suggested by Pro- fessor Chamberlin, appears to indicate forceful or vigorous action of the ice-sheet. Its peculiarly sharp contours and their diag- nostic characters make it the most conspicuous and distinctive morainic belt in the state. Other moraines, newer as well as older than this morainic system, assume in places the form of smooth ridges or have but gently undulating surface, and hence are less conspicuous features even where they have as great bulk as the individual members of this system. In western Ohio one of the members of this system (the second one of the group) carries on its surface large numbers of crystalline bowlders of Canadian derivation and the remaining members are liberally GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN OHIO. 143 supplied. In this respect this morainic system contrasts with all other moraines of Ohio, and especially with the later moraines, there being but few bowlders on their surfaces. In eastern Ohio bowlders are a less conspicuous though not a rare feature. The cause of this unusual abundance of bowlders is an interesting problem and one perhaps not easily solved.) It- has been suggested by some one, I think it was Mr. McGee, that an unusual abundance of bowlders on the later drift sheets may be an indication that the ice invasion which brought them in was preceded by a long deglaciation interval in the gathering ground, and that the Canadian highlands were scoured afresh after the lapse of sufficient time for ledges to have been seamed and broken under atmospheric influence. The suggestion seems worthy of careful consideration. The drainage from the ice-sheet was especially vigorous at this time throughout the entire width of the state and as far to the east and west as this morainic system has been identified. The altitude could not well have been less than at present, and may have been somewhat greater. The later moraines. Between this morainic system and the western end of Lake Erie six more or less distinct moraines occur, which were probably formed in comparatively rapid suc- cession. They each consist usually of a broad ridge one or two miles or more in width, and twenty-five to fifty feet in height. They are each sufficiently bulky to have determined to a large extent the courses of the main drainage lines of northern Ohio (see map) and yet they seldom present a sharply indented or conspicuously broken surface. The overwash aprons and terraces connected with them indicate less rapid discharge of waters than from the earlier moraines, and that too in certain parts of the belts where conditions were very favorable for rapid escape of waters as in the north part of the Scioto basin. It is thought from this feature as well as from the aspect of the morainic ridges themselves, that the ice-sheet had less vigor than when forming earlier moraines. That there was a decrease in altitude seems also highly probable. As noted above, surface bowlders 144 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. are of comparatively rare occurrence, being apparently no more plentiful than in the body of the drift. The aspect of this group of moraines is so very different from that of the group which lies outside it, that it is thought not improbable that they are the product of a distinct invasion. No decisive evidence of a long deglaciation interval separating the two groups has, however, been discovered. Summary. From the facts above presented the following stages of the glacial period seem sustained : 1. A glacial stage during which the ice-sheet extended farther south in western Ohio than in any later stage. This stage will need subdivision in case a buried soil horizon in the midst of its deposits be well substantiated. 2. A long stage of deglaciation marked by development of soil and by attendant oxidation, leaching and erosion of the drift sheet. 3. A stage of silt deposition during which the highest points in south-western Ohio apparently became covered at flood stages. From evidence gathered elsewhere it seems probable that the silt deposition accompanied a glacial stage whose deposits are concealed in this region by later drift sheets. 4. A glacial stage, during which the outermost well - defined frontal moraine was formed. The drift of this stage is concealed in eastern Ohio by the later moraines. Preceding this stage is an interval during which the valleys became opened again to such depth that the main streams, at the time of this later ice invasion, flowed at levels 200 feet or more below the level of the upland silt. 5. A stage of deglaciation of considerable length as indi- cated by valley excavation. 6. A glacial stage characterized by sharply indented mor- ainic ridges, thought to indicate vigorous action. The ice-sheet reached about to the glacial boundary in eastern Ohio, but fell short many miles of reaching the boundary farther west. 7. A glacial stage characterized by morainic ridges of smooth contour. This stage embraces the final disappearance of CEACTALEY SUCCES SION MNGOHTO: 145 the ice-sheet from Ohio. A deglaciation interval is believed to have preceded this stage, but as yet, decisive evidence in support of this view is not obtained. We may now profitably review what is known concerning the altitude in each stage: 1. During the earliest advance little of value is known in this region. The scarcity, if not absence, of ‘coarse overwash material seems to indicate feeble drainage and consequent low altitude. It is true that the Split rock and Middle creek con- glomerate indicate powerful water action, but if formed as they appear to have been beneath the ice-sheet, they show little as to the altitude of the land. 2. During the period of deglaciation following the depo- sition of the earliest drift there appear, from the character of the changes effected, to have been fair drainage conditions. We may presume, therefore, that the altitude was not much lower than the present altitude of the region (800-1000 feet ANE Ve 3. During the period of silt deposition there can be little doubt that the region stood several hundred feet lower than now. 4. During the formation of the outer moraine of the later drift there were apparently as good drainage conditions as are now afforded in the western Ohio region. 5. During the succeeding deglaciation interval the erosion effected indicates a fair altitude. 6. During the formation of the main morainic system the maximum of elevation was probably reached, there being an espec- ially vigorous drainage at that time, not only in Ohio, but as far to the west as the moraine has been correlated. 7. During the formation of the later moraines there seems to have been a return to low altitude, and still later the Cham- plain submergence of the coast and St. Lawrence occurred. It is important to note that the Champlain submergence is separated from the submergence which produced the silts of southern Ohio by the periods of high altitude just mentioned, a succession of 146 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. periods during which all the Ohio moraines, no less than twelve in number, were being formed. The decision as to the relative length of the intervals of deglaciation is obviously dependent upon data gathered from the entire glacial field, and should not be rendered in the light of what can be gathered from this limited region. FRANK LEVERETT. MRACHS Oy SGEACI NIE VIAN ING OHIO: TRENTON and the Delaware Valley no longer have exclusive claims to reputed evidences of glacial man. For a number of years reports have come from the West of finds of implements ~ in ice-age drift. Miss Babbitt in Minnesota, Cresson in Indiana and Metz and Mills in Ohio, have in turn announced the discovery of specimens of these rare and precious mementos of antiquity. I have already, in papers published in THE JouRNAL OF GroLoey and in the American Geologist, raised questions as to the proper interpretation of the finds in Trenton and at Little Falls, Minnesota. A brief study of the Ohio finds may now be under- taken with a view of presenting and weighing such doubts as may have arisen with respect to the value of the evidence furn- ished by them. I have endeavored in this, as in the other cases, to keep well within the bounds of legitimate criticism, desiring to allow all that can be justly claimed for the evidence presented in support of the theory of a glacial paleolithic man in America. In dealing with this subject, however, I have found it necessary to keep in mind the fact that the evidence to be considered has been collected and presented by advocates of the paleolithic theory who have welcomed finds without critical scrutiny, and have reached and presented conclusions as much because they were in the line of the expected and desired, as because they were actually susceptible of demonstration. The advocates of the theory have naturally taken every opportunity to emphasize the importance of the evidence collected as viewed from their own standpoint. To insure correct final judgment it is necessary that other points of view be taken and that the evidence be subjected to every possible test. I shall confine myself to fields in which I have made personal and most careful observations. I do not desire to secure the acceptance as final of any particular view with respect to the history of early man in America. I am not intro- 147 148 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. ducing or advocating a theory but attempting to insure the non- acceptance of any theory, howsoever plausible, that is not supported by conclusive proofs. Others have undertaken to show how much proof Ohio has furnished in support of a par- ticular hypothesis; they cannot now object to my attempting to show how insignificant this proof really is. At the meeting of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science in Washington, in 1891, much attention was paid to glacial geology, and one paper by Mr. Frank Leverett, of the Geological Survey, treated of the gravels of Loveland, Ohio, and or the dinds-of implements in 7them™ by Dir€> Mews Mr. Leverett was then about to return to Ohio and I resolved to accompany him to the Little Miami Valley with a view of mak- ing a brief preliminary study of the gravels and their contents. A week later Dr. Metz joined us at Loveland, and we proceeded at once to the great gravel pits just west of the village. Gravel was then being taken by the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Com- pany from the south side of the road, two hundred yards beyond the bridge, but the old pit is a little farther on and on the north side of the road, the excavation running into the high terrace from the track at an oblique angle. The excavation is upward of two hundred yards long, and is from two hundred to three hundred feet wide, and has an average depth of perhaps twenty- five feet. The west wall had not been worked recently, and was reduced by erosion to a steep slope covered with vegetation. The curved wall of the east side was thirty or more feet high and very steep, affording an excellent exposure of the gravels ; these consisted of very coarse material laid down in heavy irregular beds. At least one-fourth of the mass consisted of sub-angular or but imperfectly rounded slabs and flattish masses of limestone, which lay flat or with a slight inclination toward the river. The larger slabs, which were often as much as two feet or more across, projected like steps or shelves from the wall. The remainder of the deposit consisted of smaller rounded masses and bits of limestone; of masses, bowlders and pebbles of granitic rock constituting perhaps one- TRACES OF GLACIAL MAWN IN OHO. 149 twentieth of the deposit, and of gravel, sand and calcareous powder. f There were, in places, indications of rude lenticular bedding of these materials with a pretty uniform general inclination toward the channel of the river. The appearance of newness exhibited by these deposits was wonderful; the surfaces of the stones were smooth and clean, and many of the interspaces were _ open as if formed but yesterday. A closer examination showed, however, that this appearance of newness was partly due to the fact that the waters charged with calcareous matter penetrated the superficial beds, partially setting the constituent parts and in a measure sealing the apertures, thus preventing the com- plete settling and filling that otherwise would have taken place. The constitution and conditions were pretty uniform through- out the section, save at the top where there was a deposit from two to four feet deep of ferruginous sandy loam, containing some fragments, pebbles and bowlders of several varieties of stone. After three visits,and the most careful but entirely fruitless search for relics of art from bottom to top of the gravel walls, I found myself wondering whether there had not been some mis- take, whether the objects found were really tools, or whether the collector had not mistaken materials descended from the surface deposits for gravelin place. Itis unfortunate that the statements of collectors in such cases, correct or incorrect, cannot readily be subjected to competent tests of verity; we must be content with hedging them about with all available restrictions in the way of negative evidence. Having, during the first visit, examined the site at some length, we proceeded to the office of Dr. Metz, in Madisonville, and were shown two objects obtained from the pit at a depth of about twenty-five feet beneath the surface. The smaller of these, a dark flattish piece of cherty, slightly water-worn stone, was rudely flaked along one edge, but the evidence of design was not at all convincing, and it seems useless to place the speci- men in evidence. The other object was apparently a work of art, exhibiting decided indications of design. It was found in 150 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. the main gravel pit about twenty-five feet from the surface, by Dr. Metz, who expresses his full belief that it was in place in the gravels when found. A third slightly flaked stone from the same locality and position had been forwarded to the Peabody Museum at Cambridge. On examining this specimen at a sub- sequent date I found that it has no features that can with certainty be described as artificial. It is not from a desire to discredit the observations of Dr. Metz, who isa most reputable and more than usually capable observer, that I raise the question of the verity of these finds. It is essential, in a case where so much depends on the finding of a single specimen, that every observation relating to it should be placed upon record in such a way that, in the future, judg- ments as to the value of the evidence may not be based entirely upon the testimony of a single observer whose acquirements may be restricted or whose preconceived notions may give a very marked bias to his observations and deductions. Referring to the Loveland site, it may be remarked in ‘the first place that it seems improbable that man would have occu- pied an area overrun by torrents capable of transporting, and transporting almost exclusively, the coarse materials forming these deposits, and the chances of the preservation of artificial features of specimens brought by floods from the valley above are extremely slight.‘ Of course, if man existed here during the glacial period, he may have sought the raw material for his rude arts on the banks of this stream during the periods of of low water and may have thus left the refuse of his shaping operations at almost any point; but a single specimen cannot, considering possible errors of observation, be regarded as suffi- cient for the establishment of such a conclusion. In the second place, I may mention the fact that on carefully examining the Loveland specimen, I found it partly covered with dark, well-compacted earth, resembling the soil of the surface of tThe edge of the continental ice sheet was, according to Mr. Leverett, only about eight miles distant when these gravels were formed, which makes the probability of finding implements here still slighter. TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN OffIO. I51 the terrace, rather than the light-colored, fine-grained calcareous powder characterizing the matrix, such as there is, of the gravel deposits. It seems to me that there is in this observation, made also by Mr. Leverett, and still subject to verification if the speci- men has not yet been cleaned, sufficient ground for raising the question as to whether it is possible that Dr..Metz could have mistaken a surface mass, descended into the pit from above, for gravel in place. Dr. Metz, or any other observer not a profes- sional student of geologic phenomena, especially of talus phe- nomena, involving materials subject to resetting after degrada- tion, or to sliding en masse, could readily be excused for making a mistake of this kind. Lest this suspicion of error should seem unfounded or uncalled for, I have prepared two sections, Figs. I and 2, which illustrate some of the many dangers besetting the way of gravel searchers. In Fig. 1, an ordinary profile, resulting from the removal of gravels for railroad ballast, is shown. De- serted by the workmen for a day or a week, objects from the sur- face deposits, A, may have fallen into the pit resting at 6. The sliding of the mass, a 6, might cover them to the depth of several feet, C, Fig. 2,and the effects of disturbance upon the surface are soon obscured or obliterated by weathering. Suppose now that Dr. Metz, or any one else, should appear upon the scene as the fallen mass is removed and penetrated by workmen, and should witness the uncovering of art forms at J, twenty-five feet beneath the surface of the terrace. It is vain to hold that there is no danger of mistake in such a case; the chances of error are really very great, and a little slip like this in observation would falsify the chronology of human history in this valley to the extent of some thousands of years. It may be remarked that the terraces of the Little Miami were for a long period occupied by mound-building tribes whose implements and refuse of manufacture are scattered everywhere, and it is entirely within the range of possibility that such a par- tially worked specimen as this should have been left by them in the surface loams on the site of this pit at Loveland. As to the nature of the object itself, a number of questions 152 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. may be raised, and we are justified in making all possible inqui- ries. It is a pick-like object, some six inches long, and perhaps two inches thick toward the larger end. The head is rounded, as if intended to fit the hand, and there is even an appearance, deceptive, no doubt, as will appear further on, of abrasion by use. The sides are neatly flaked, the apparent result of blows by a hammer, many of which seem to have served only to bat- ter the edges, while others appear to have removed a series of flakes extending along the shaft from the head to near the point. The smaller end of the object is worthy of especial notice; the point, which probably was originally sharply pyramidal, has been removed by an oblique fracture, leaving a clean, unworn surface. A portion of the surface adjacent to the truncated point has not been shaped by flaking, but retains the original minutely gran- ular weathered surface, indicating that the stone before flaking or remodeling was already pointed. The object was therefore not used after the breaking of the point, as the unworn fracture shows, and the presence of the unaltered original surface adja- cent to the present point would seem to prove that it never was subjected to use. The material appears to be a fine-grained, light-colored limestone, having a conchoidal fracture. It is soft and brittle, and is not likely to have been employed in making tools, and especially pick-like tools. This observation leads to an inquiry as to whether it is possible that the flaking could have been the result of natural agencies, such, for instance, as the crushing and abrading forces exerted by moving ice. Could a pointed bit or mass of brittle limestone have been so squeezed between moving impinging rocks as to remove these flakes and to produce the battered and rounded effect seen upon the edges and head, respectively, of this object without affecting the point, save to break it, and without breaking the shaft elsewhere? That natural forces do occasionally produce forms resembling those of art is well known, and that archeologists have at times been rash in accepting such as artificial cannot be denied. To more fully inform myself upon this topic I made careful examinations of the contents of the moraine from which por- — Ee TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN OHIO. 153 tions, at least, of these gravels descended. I was somewhat sur- prised with the results, which proved so interesting and suggest- ive that they may well be referred to in this place. Ina railroad cut recently made through morainal deposits near South Lebanon, about eight miles north of Loveland, I found numerous pieces of this brittle limestone, varying from minute bits to masses a foot or more in greatest dimension, showing traces of fracture and flaking resembling somewhat closely those of the implement or object: found by Dr. Metz at Loveland. Indeed, some of these specimens are so well flaked that I would, under ordinary cir- cumstances, not hesitate to call them artificial. In fact, all may be artificial, although the shapes are often eccentric, and the size, in cases, is greater than in any known flaked tool. Itisa significant fact that nearly all the stones found in the deposit are covered with glacial striae, and some of the conchoidal faces of the implement-like objects are scratched, through movements of the ice. It is true that man may have lived or hunted on or near the ice, and his tools or the refuse from their manufac- ture may have been taken up by the ice, passing afterwards into the moraine; but that they should enter the ice in numbers, and so become striated through its movements, is highly improbable. The Loveland specimen has, however, a more decidedly artificial character than any of these, and were its inclusion in the gravels fully verified, and were it not alone and practically unsupported by other finds, it could well be accepted as important evidence of glacial occupation by a stone-flaking people. Besides the Loveland finds, Dr. Metz obtained a specimen of rudely flaked black chert from a cistern which he was sinking in Madisonville, Ohio. It was found at the surface of, or slightly imbedded in, gravel beneath a bed of silt eight feet thick. Dr. Metz is a careful observer, and it is hard to believe that he would have permitted himself to be deceived although all must t Putnam, F. W. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXIII, p. 242. Wright, G. F. Ice Age, pp. 530-532. Leverett, Frank. Am. Geologist, March 1893, p. 187. According to Mr. Leverett it is not certain that these silts belong to the ice age, and if not, the find is no eyi- dence of glacial man, whatever else it may signify. 154 THE JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY. admit the possibility of such deception. I have examined the specimen, now in the Peabody Museum, and find it to be identical in every essential feature with typical rejects of the modern blade-maker, lacking the least indication of specializa- tion. It is not safe to call it an implement, no matter what its age, and to present it as evidence of paleolithic culture is little short of folly. The discovery of a number of ancient hearths on the banks of Little Miami river was announced several. years ago, amd may be referred to in this place, since they were associated with deposits of ancient-appearing gravel. Professor Putnam gives the following information in regard to them: An exploring party ‘‘discovered five ancient hearths half a mile down the river from the Turner group of earthworks. These hearths were exposed by the river cutting away its bank. The lowest of the five . . . is thirteen feet below the surface of the bottom land, and rests upon a layer of gravel seven inches thick, upon which rest ten feet of alluvial deposit. This is by far the lowest and most ancient of the many hearths which from time to time have been exposed by the action of the river, as first noticed sev- eral years ago by Dr. C. L. Metz, who has examined a number of these ancient fire-places, and on one found fragments of pot- tery, which he sent to the Museum last year. These hearths are made of small boulders, in each case covering an area of several square feet. These stones are burnt, and many are splintered by heat. Upon the stones forming this oldest hearth was a consid- erable quantity of ashes and charcoal, but no other evidence of the work of man. These hearths furnish evidence of the occu- pation of the bottom land at different intervals during the form- ation of this deep deposit, filling the valley for miles in extent. That in this lowest hearth we have a considerable antiquity is self-evident; but how long after the formation of the glacial moraine, from which the gravel overlying it was derived, will only be determined by a careful study of the geology of the whole valley.” * Putnam, F. W., 23d and 24th Annual Reports of Peabody Museum, p. 92. ee r Obs dclabecNtaa Sided TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN OFIO. 155 In 1891 I visited this site with Mr. Frank Leverett. Traces of the fire- marked stones were found, but the waters had removed the hearths previously observed. A critical examination of the sedimentary deposits leaves the impression that they are quite modern. The upper surface is but little above the present flood plain, and has the appearance of a modern alluvial deposit of black, loamy earth, including thin irregular layers of fine gravels. I see no reason, considering the facility of mutation character- izing such deposits, why the hearths may not have belonged to the occupants of the site of the noted Turner group of mounds near by. It is seen from Professor Putnam’s report that there were many hearths in and beneath these works. ‘An examina- tion was also made of the surrounding embankment of the work, and much to our surprise portions of it were found to cover large areas of burnt stones. Several of these old fireplaces were explored inch by inch with the trowel, and in the ashes and among the charcoal were found numerous pieces of the bones of various animals, many potsherds, flint chips, broken and perfect implements, ornaments of several kinds, pieces of mica, etc., all similar to what has been found in previous years at other places It may, I believe, be yyy in this interesting group of earthworks. taken for granted that these hearths, notwithstanding their inti- mate relations with deposits of gravel, will never form any part of the evidence arrayed in support of an ice-age man or a pale- olithic culture. Another discovery, to which much attention has been given on account of its supposed bearing upon the paleolithic question, was made in 1889. Mr: W. C. Mills, of Newcomerstown, Tus- carawas county, Ohio, found a single specimen of chipped flint in an exposure of glacial gravel in that place. The specimen fell into the hands of Professor G. F. Wright, by whom it has been widely exhibited and published.