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Letter to Taylor from Leverett, November 21, 1926

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19

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: November 21, 1926

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 got home Friday from the field work in PA and the edge of NJ since July 10th. The most important result is the determination that the Illinois stage is represented by an outlying drift in eastern PA and in Warren Co., NJ. It may also be represented in a long slender lobe running down the Susquehanna valley beyond Sunbury from the border of the Wisconsin drift at Berwick. I also incline to put a considerable part of the pre-Wisconsin drift in NW PA in the Illinoian Stage rather than the Kansan. In NJ, Salisbury described three gravel formations but he only had two drifts to correlate them with, the Jerseyan and the Wisconsin. I am correlating the Jerseyan with the Bridgeton, the Illinoian with the Peusauken. The Wisconsin and the Cape May gravel are already considered correlatives. I plan to continue work there next spring, and may also work on the Wisconsin drift border in PA, for I found that H.C. Lewis has included some pre-Wisconsin srift in the Wisconsin. Mrs L and I are planning to spend about 4 months in Tucson, AZ, leaving here in December. My physician advises me to do this to get relief from my bronchial cough. It is a very annoying racking cough. I inclose a copy of Sardeson's recent paper "Four stage glacial epoch" for you, as he did not have your address. I don't think the paper a meritorious one for it seems to show up other geologists in as bad a light as is possible, and it makes out they have no basis for recognizing Iowan drift. It does not seem probable to me that the several geologists he names could have mistaken "graders dump" for Iowan drift at Oelwein. Several of their papers mention the black soil found on top of the Iowan; graders dump would have no such soil, so I infer there is Iowan drift there as well as "graders dump". Mrs L joins me in sending best wishes to you both.

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