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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recent Discoveries in Glacial Geology. | 12/21/1887 | See Source »

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