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...Smith, of the Geological Department, will conduct an excursion to Woods Hole and Martha's Vineyard, leaving Boston Monday morning at 7.38 o'clock, and returning before the end of the recess. At Woods Hole the state fish hatcheries will be inspected, and on Martha's Vinevard the Gay Head section of mesozoic and tertiary strata, including stream diversions of the interglacial age, will be studied, an opportunity being given to collect fossils and lignites. All men who wish to go on this trip may apply to Mr. Smith...
Geological Conference. Paper: (1) The St. Louis Tornado of May 27, 1896. (2) The Waterspout off Martha's Vinevard, Aug. 19, 1896. (3) The Snowstorm of Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 1898. (Illustrated with stereopticon). Mr. R. DeC. Ward. Geological Lecture-room, M. Z., 8 p. m. Open to all members of the University...
...northern half of this continent, by means of the great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines. The southern limit, from New Jersey to the Pacific, of this ice-sheet was shown by maps; and, curiously enough, this line also bounds the great wheat fields of the country, the area once covered with ice being far more productive than the rest...
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