238 Frank Carney 



distance of about one and one-half miles is followed by a high- 

 way and is parallel to the beach of the upper level. An off-shore 

 barrier, about one-half mile long, shows in this distance. Both 

 beach ridges have been cut by Sugar Creek, east of which the 

 same parallel relationship persists. 



After crossing Darby Creek the lower shore line is not distinct. 

 Through part of this distance the Berea sandstone has a cliff 

 which may represent wave-work, but it is not sufficiently contin- 

 uous to warrant so mapping. It is evident that here the lower 

 level w^as made irregular by a cape extending nearly a mile into 

 the lake. A beach ridge on its eastern side is continuous to the 

 promontory of Berea sandstone in which the cape terminated. 

 Extending a short distance to the southwest from the promontory 

 there is also a strong beach ridge which terminates in a hook bent 

 to the east. This relationship suggests that the promontory, in 

 which the cape terminates, may have been an island early in the 

 Maumee level, and that as the lake level fell it was tied to the 

 shore line, the bar becoming a beach ridge. North of Axtel, wave- 

 work cut a cliff in the Berea sandstone (fig. 2C) ; the cliff phase con- 

 tinues southeastward along the beach ridge ; this ridge has a sharp 

 development as it trends to the south (fig. 2D). Shortly it turns 

 more directly east, decreasing in height as it nears the river. 



On the opposite side of the Vermilion river, the lower Maumee 

 level is near to, and parallel to, the earlier shore line. For the 

 first half-mile the two are separated by a long lagoon. There is 

 another lagoon just north of the lower beach, between it and an 

 off-shore barrier. 



Eastward there is some indefiniteness in mapping the beach 

 ridge of this lake level. The highway south from Brownhelm 

 crosses two ridges before reaching the shore of the upper level. 

 The first of these ridges consists of too coarse material to permit its 

 interpi^etation as an off-shore barrier; the second is so fine in tex- 

 ture that it may be a barrier of the higher level, but at its eastern 

 end it blends into a cliff cut in the sandstone, which is probably 

 contemporaneous in origin with the ridge first alluded to. At 

 the next highway a cusp-like deposit of prevailingly coarse beach 

 materials extends for a short distance northward. From this 

 point nearly to the edge of the sheet a highway follows this beach. 

 At the north-south highwa}^ it turns southward parallel to the 

 ridge already described. 



