In the central part of New York the remarkable series of "Finger Lakes," tributary to Lake Ontario and emptying into it through the Oswego and Genesee Rivers, all have a glacial origin.
North of the State of New York the innumerable lakes in Canada are all of glacial origin, being mostly due to depressions of the nature of kettle-holes, or to the damming up of old outlets by glacial deposits.
Abbott, all expressly and with minute detail describe finding implements in the undisturbed gravel at Trenton, which no one denies to be of glacial origin.
The loess is intimately associated with accumulations, the glacial and fluvio-glacial origin of which cannot be doubted.
The breccias of the Permian system have been described by Ramsay as of glacial origin.
The drift graduates into a peculiar mud deposit, for which the name of “loess” has been adopted from the geologists of Europe, by whom it was given to a thick alluvial stratum of fine sand and loam, of glacial origin.
This view regards the deposits as of glacial origin, and as laid down during that period, but considers that they were subsequently modified in their arrangement by the action of water.
The alluvial fill which lies upon all the canyon and valley floors is of glacial origin, as shown by its interlocking relations with morainal deposits at the valley heads.
I suppose it would not be doubted in general that a section of such stony, bowldery, unsorted material two miles long would have other than a glacial origin, yet such may be the case.
Lakes on all sides were visible, most of them probably of glacial origin.
This immense basin is undoubtedly of glacial origin, evidences of ice erosion being plainly seen.
It has long been known that Hamilton Inlet was of glacial origin, the immense basin hollowed out by this erosive agent being 150 miles in length.
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