Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T09:14:45.527Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

I.—Glacial Geology of Western New York1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Herman Le Roy Fairchild
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The area herein described is that part of New York State lying south of Lake Ontario, and west of longitude 76°. The dimensions of the area are, approximately, 95 miles north and south and 155 miles east and west, or nearly 15,000 square miles. The rocks are shales, sandstones, and limestones of the Upper Silurian and Devonian systems. The strike is nearly east and west, with a southward dip averaging perhaps 50 feet to the mile.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 12 , December 1897 , pp. 529 - 537
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1897

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

1

A paper read at the Toronto Meeting of the British Association, August, 1897.

References

page 529 note 2 The stratigraphy is fully described in Dr. James Hall's Report, “Natural History of New York”: Report on the Fourth Geological District, by James Hall. Albany, 1850.

page 531 note 1 A map showing the directions of drainage and the water-partings may be found in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. vi, pi. xviii.Google Scholar

page 531 note 2 See papers by Professor T. C. Chamberlin in the 3rd and 6th Annual Reports of the United States Geological Survey.

page 532 note 1 Fairchild, H. L., “The Kame Moraine at Rochester, New York”: American Geologist, vol. xvi, pp. 39–51.Google Scholar

page 533 note 1 “Terminal Moraine of the Second Glacial Epoch”: 3rd Annual Report, U.S. Geol. Surv., pp. 291–492. Plate xxxiii covers the area of Western New York.Google Scholar

page 533 note 2 Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. L, pp. 1–20.Google Scholar

page 533 note 3 See Journal of Geology, vol. iv, p. 135.Google Scholar

page 534 note 1 Fairchild, H. L., “Kame Areas in Western New York, South of Irondequoit and Sodus Bays”: journal of Geology, vol. iv, pp. 129–159.Google Scholar “Kame Moraine at Rochester, New York”: Amer. Geol., vol. xvi, pp. 39–51.Google Scholar

page 534 note 2 Fairchild, H. L., “Glacial Lakes of Western New York”: Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. vi, pp. 353–74.Google Scholar

page 534 note 3 “Glacial Genesee Lakes”: Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. vii, pp. 423–52.Google Scholar

page 535 note 1 For the latest comprehensive statement of the lake-history in the Laurentian basin as a whole, see article by Taylor, F. B., “X. A Short History of the Great Lakes,” in ‘Studies in Indiana Geography,’ edited by Dryer, C. R.. Terre Haute, Indiana, 1897.Google Scholar

page 535 note 2 Fairchild, H. L., “Lake Warren Shorelines in Western New York and the Geneva Beach”: Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. viii, pp. 269–86.Google Scholar

page 535 note 3 Ibid., pp. 281–4.

page 535 note 4 Gilbert, G. K., “The History of the Niagara River”: 6th Ann. Rep. Com. of State Reserv. at Niagara. Albany, 1890.Google Scholar

page 535 note 5 Fairchild, H. L., “Glacial Genesee Lakes”: Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. vii, pp. 449–52.Google Scholar

page 536 note 1 Gilbert, G. K., “Old Tracks of Erian Drainage in Western New York”: Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. viii, pp. 285–6.Google Scholar