Letter to Taylor from Leverett, January 7, 1915

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8

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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 7, 1915

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.

Extent

From the Collection: 1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

General

I was glad to hear from you about the Philadelphia meeting and to see the GSA program of papers. You did not speak of the papers by Shaw and Trowbridge on the work of the Mississippi River in Pleistocene times. They hold that the country in the Driftless area and in southern IL and MO was a peneplain and that the Miss. R. trench 300-500' deep and 2-6 miles wide was cut in Pleistocene times, since the pre-Kansan stage. I don't believe this and have been corresponfing vigorously with Adlen, Shaw, Kay, DeWolf and Salisbury. I wrote Shaw & Trowbridge that the pre-Kansan fills the Miss. R. trench from Muscatine down nearly to St. Louis and that the valley was excavated in the rock in the Pre-Kansan exceept at rapids and other points where the river cuts across rocky points. I also called their attention to NW and NE PA and NJ where the oldest drift is in well defined valleys. I go to St. Louis Saturday and will probably pass through Fort Wayne about noon, but the time will be too short to talk business, but if you are free we might have 5-10 minutes to visit. I will be glad to see you. I will be looking at a farm that a cousin living at Edwardsville IL wishes to sell to get money to buy a business in Ohio. I may decide to invest if it looks good. The farm lies near Steeleville in Crawford Co., MO on the N slope of the Ozark Plateau in a good fruit and dairy area. I will bring Wright's Quaternary Ice Age with me to loan to you; I doubt you will want to buy it. With best wishes to Mrs. T., yourself and father for the New Year.