Letter to Taylor from Leverett, January 16, 1913

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6

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Scope and Contents

From the Series:

The correspondence series includes approximately 1100 letters written between 1892-1939. The majority of the collection are letters between Frank Leverett and Frank Bursley Taylor; they discuss their field work, Monograph 53, other publications and various related problems. There is also other correspondence with other geologists, including T.C. Chamberlin, Grove K. Gilbert, J.W. Goldthwait, H.L. Fairchild, et alia. There is extensive correspondence with the U.S. Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada, and the Michigan Geological Survey. The primary subject of this series is the surficial glacial geology of the midwestern U.S. and Canada. Leverett & Taylor's work was essential for understanding how the Great Lakes were formed as the Pleistocene glaciers advanced and retreated from the midwestern states. The letters describe the 30 year process of gathering data, mapping the data and constructing the picture of glacial processes during the last Ice Age.

Dates

Creation: January 16, 1913

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The collection is open for research.

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Extent

From the Collection: 1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

General

Prof. Carney's manuscript on Cleveland area reports nothing he can interpret as Arkona, but I seem to remember you were able to find the Arkona. Perhaps you could write me and/or Carney about anything you found. Also I advised Carney to omit the reference to no evidence of a water rise from the Wayne to the Warren lake level, but there is an inconsistency with his description of the Wayne Beach on Euclid Ave. and with your observations. At the New Haven meeting, Fairchild's presidential address used Lake Lundy, not Lake Elkton, for the waters preceding the drop to and below the Niagara Falls level. Have you found beaches in NYhigh enough to correpsond to the Elkton & Grassmere beaches in Michigan? Carney thinks the 640' beach on St. Clair in Cleveland is Grassmere. Spencer's papers presented nothing too different from previous ones, although he suggests that the uplift culminated along a long stretch instead of a dome. He thinks the present divide between Hudson Bay and Great Lakes drainage is the result of this uplift; what do you think of that idea? I have read your Chapter 12 for changes and updates. On page 6 you refer to an uplift dating back of the Pleistocene. Barrell reports the river systems in northern PA show signs of an uplift in late Tertiary. Those streams flowing N meandered because of a lower gradient of the uplift and those streams flowing S cut down more deeply because of the uplift gradient. You might wish to correspond with Barrell and update your paper. Other corrections noted. Can we find some terminology for the Maumee beaches besides 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, because the one that is 2nd in position is 3rd in time, and the one in 3rd position is 2nd in time? Perhaps we might consider: 1. First or highest Maumee, 2. Main Maumee (3rd in age), 3. Lowest Maumee (2nd in age). It is inconsistent to speak of an upper beach when there is another one higher in the same series. We should settle this before Carney's folio goes to print. I met Gilbert in the Library yesterday; he is feeling well enough to do some work and inquired after you.