Letter to Taylor from Leverett, December 5, 1918

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 11

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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: December 5, 1918

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

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Extent

From the Collection: 1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

General

It did not work out for me to stop in Fort Wayne on my way back from Arkansas, so I took the fastest train from Chicago and arrived at midnight before Thanksgiving. I found a letter from W.A. Johnston and a map of the Swan River District in Manitoba where he traced the beaches of Lake Agassiz and the results of his leveling. He finds the beaches become lower N of Duck Mountain than at the E side. A beach at Cowan at 1205' is 1185' at Kenville (30 mi. W) and only 1154' 7 miles W of Bowsman (15 miles N of Kenville). I wonder if a heavy load of glacial or lake sediments occur in the lowlands N of Duck Mt., and that may have prevented the land from rising as much as the land nearer Duck Mt. I wrote Johnston asking anout the sediment thickness there. Johnston also writes the beaches higher than the one I mentioned do not occur in the lowland N of Duck Mt. The highest beach terminates W of Cowan at 1356', about 150' above the one he traced beyond there. This beach rises 42' in 20 mi. at its N end, while the one Johnston traced rises only 23' in the same 20 mi. If your map does not have Cowan on it, the village is just N of Lat 52 and Long 100 deg, 40 min. I have to make another trip to Arkansas to testify in court and it may come near the holidays. If so, I doubt if I can go to Baltimore; are you planning on going? I would like to have a conference with RC Allen in Washington on the Bulletin on the Camp Custer region. I have made it cover over 1500 sq. miles and extend to the SW part of St. Joseph Co. so to clearly show the relationship of the Saginaw and Michigan Lobes in SW MI. Regards to you both.