Description: Map showing the terminal moraine of the second glacial epoch east of the Great Lakes region, including the glacial landscape features of Cape Cod and Nantucket, Long Island, the Catskills and Finger Lakes, and the extreme terminal moraine described by Lewis and Wright which extends from approximately Salamanca, New York southeasterly to Easton, Pennsylvania, and across New Jersey to New Brunswick. The map includes the drift bearing area, the generalized directions of glacial movement, the direction of glacial striae, and the locations of prominent terminal moraines. Map is referenced to Julius Bien and Co. lith.
Source: Thomas C. Chamberlin, United States Geological Survey Annual Report, 3rd (Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey, 1882) PL.XXXIII
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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