Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Excursion 6.- Saturday, Nov. 9. Professor W. M. Davis. The Terminal Moraine of Southern Rhode Island. This moraine is a portion of one of the great terminal moraines that was formed near the margin of the ice-covered area of the last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow...
...memory of the late Professor James Dwight Dana of Yale. Papers will be read on his work in various branches of science, by Dr. Jackson on his work in Zoology, by Professor Wolff on his work on the Taconic Problem; by Professor Davis on his work in Glacial Geology and by Professor Shaler, on his influence upon Geology...
...Glacial Geology, Professor Davis. His Influence upon Geology, Professor Shaler...
...Glacial Geology, Professor Davis. His Influence upon Geology, Professor Shaler...
These glaciers also augmented the topographical peculiarities of New England and consequently afforded more variety in human interests and human development. The effect of the glacial movement of the soil was also good, making it of a more enduring character. Undoubtedly all these conditions went toward making the New England type of man as high as any in the world...