Letter to Taylor From Leverett, March 30, 1917

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10

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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: March 30, 1917

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

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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

Sorry that you could not attend the Academy meeting but we look forward to you & Mrs. Taylor at the May Festival. The Geology Section papers were well attended and provided much discussion. Charles E. Cook was nominated for Chair of the section next year. F.W. Frostic of St. Charles, MI, is much interested in shorelines; we examined the topographic sheets and figured the courses of the beaches on them. The maps have 5' contours so the beaches show very clearly. If you do not have these, you should write Alden or R.B. Marshall to have them sent to you. The maps show the Arkona beaches show an uplift of ~15' near Henderson, with the highest one at 725-728', a lower one at 715', and a definite beach at 700-705'. This last I interpret as the Warren, and the Wayne at 675'. The Algonquin reaches 610-615' at the latitude of Hemlock & Saginaw, so it shows a slight uplift. There is a shoreline above the Arkona at ~735' which I presume is the Lake Saginaw, which you discuss in the Monograph on p. 358. Mr. Frostic is so interested in this higher shoreline that he plans to go to Henderson in a few days. There is a drainage leading W from the Shiawassee River at Henderson with a bed between 730-735' which may have started as a border drainage from the Henderson Moraine and was later used as a discharge from an early stage of Lake Saginaw. I wish you could have been here to look over the maps with Mr. Frostic & I; you could have suggested lines of work for him to pursue. Sherzer was here at the house yesterday for lunch, and I found he had not heard that Monograph 53 was issued. It is a pity that this had not been better publicized to geologists. It ought to be reviewed by someone for Journal of Geology and also Science. The size of it may make our friends hesitate to review it until they had had time to read it carefully, and few are likely to have read it through. Hoping to see you & Mrs. Taylor at the May Festival. P.S. You can get photographs of the Ionia & Cedar Springs Quadrangles now.