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Letter to Taylor from Leverett, April 9, 1924

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 17

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: April 9, 1924

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

Your letter and Blueprint came during the Mich. Academy meetings. I was very glad to hear from you again. I was not certain where you were spending the winter. Dryer told me at Cincinnati that you might go to CA with them, but I heard nothing further. I hope your health has been imnproving and that you will have a good summer for work. I have been pretty well except for that chronic cough. I will inclose the list of Geology & Mineralogy papers given at the Academy meeting. Krause tells of a large copper mass of several hundred pounds that was hammered into the shape of an Indian chieftain; Hussey has pictures of the excavations on campus that show the outwash plain, and my paper was based on field work last May-June on the N side of the Driftless area where I decided that all pre-Wisconsin drift is Illinoian with no evidence of Iowan or Early Wisconsinan. Your blueprint does not show the revision of the Defiance moraine, so I inclose an OH map where I have traced its course in pencil. If you use the several topo sheets which it crosses, I think you have no difficulty in identifying it on them. The basis for this correlation is my 1920 work on the Cleveland folio extended to the Medina and Chagrin Falls quads; it is different from my Monograph 41 map which was made before topo maps were available. Dr Chadwick wrote me that he sent you, me, and Coleman a copy of his paper on the Genessee Lakes that he read in Washington. I wrote him that it was not wise to use the Croll periods as a time measure, because work by yourself and other is more accurate. I later received a manuscript from Dr. Berkey for review for the Bulletin. I inclose a copy of my reply; please look at the pertinence of my comments and return the carbon to me. Could you also state whether you think such crude methods of estimating dates should be discouraged. I think they are worse than worseless for they tend to confuse the subject. Mrs. L incloses a picture of a woman who seems to resemble Mrs. T and she wouold like to know if there is some relationship. P.S. Mr. Jillson of the KY Geological Survey writes me about doing some field work in KY this year. I may spend June & July there and return for the Brit. Ass'n meeting in Toronto. Will you go to Toronto?

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