Glacial waters in the Lake Erie basin, (Geology)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...waters at a lower level. It has been supposed that the successor of Maumee was the next lower of the lakes which have left their shore inscriptions in the region, that is, Lake Whittlesey. But Taylor has recently found that the relation of shore lines and moraines indicates that the ice front receded from the Maumee level directly to a level below the Whittlesey and opened free passage for the Waters to Lake Saginaw. This level of the waters in the HuronErie basin is thought to have persisted for a long time and to have formed the extensive beaches in Michigan and eastward, known as Arkona (named by Spencer). At length a readvance of the ice in Michigan closed the Arkona outlet and forced the overflow to a higher level, farther south, on the thumb of Michigan, at Ubley. The beaches correlating with the Ubley outlet have long been known as the Belmore (named by N. H. Winchell from a town in Ohio) and the waters have been named by Taylor Lake Whittlesey. The fall of the glacial waters from the Maumee down to the Arkona level with the subsequent rise to the Whittlesey level the writer believes to have occurred while these waters were yet excluded from New York. The facts and argument bearing on the above history will be found on pages 64-75. However, the continued recession of the Erian ice lobe during the life of Lake Whittlesey allowed these waters to push far into New York. In the State of New York we have, therefore, to deal only with Whittlesey and lower waters. Lake Whittlesey This water body, named by Taylor in 1897, was the-successor to Lakes Maumee and Arkona in the Huron-Erie basin. Its outlet was at Ubley on the Michigan “Thumb,” in a reentrant angle of the ice front. The overflow was contributed to the glacial lake...