Letter to Taylor from Leverett, December 3, 1917
Scope and Contents
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: December 3, 1917
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
General
I have been reading Mather's paper on the Champlain Sea in the Lake Ontario Basin in the 1917 Journal of Geology. It seems to shed light on the puzzling valley of the Algonquin outlet into the Ontario basin at or below the Iroquois level. Have you read it? How does it impress you? I sent a title to GSA for a paper on the relation of shore lines in Elsie-Perrinton quads to the uplift. Will you be in St. Louis? Perhaps we can meet in Fort Wayne and go on together? I hope you are in better health. On my way home I spent 3 days with M.R. Campbell near Chillicothe, OH and cleaned up the limits of Wisconsin drift in the Royabell & Chillicothe Quads. I had included some Illinoian drift near Lattaville, but we found that the Wisconsinan glaciation did not cover the highland N of Paint Creek in the Royabell & Greenfield quads. It was covered by the Illinoian, but the deflection of Paint Creek into the hills S of the old valley is due to the Wisconsinan.
Repository Details
Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository