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...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 to the west creates Pawcatuck river. On the southern side...
Geological Conference. Papers: Tepee Buttes (illustrated by lantern slides), Mr. F. P. Gulliver; The Western Boundary of the Narragansett Basin, Mr. F. C. Schrader, U. S. G. S. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: Tepee Buttes (illustrated by lantern slides), Mr. F. P. Gulliver; The Western Boundary of the Narragansett Basin, Mr. F. C. Schrader, U. S. G. S. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: Some Homologies of the Atlantic Coast Line, Mr. C. Abbe, Jr.; The South-eastern Border of the Narragansett Basin, Mr. N. S. Easton; The Northern Border of the Narragansett Basin, Mr. C. F. Marbut. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: Some Homologies of the Atlantic Coast Line, Mr. C. Abbe, Jr.; The South-eastern Border of the Narragansett Basin, Mr. N. S. Easton; The Northern Border of the Narragansett Basin, Mr. C. F. Marbut. Geological Laboratory...