Abandoned Shorelines of Vermilio7i Quadrangle 239 



The Whittlesey Shore Line 



Lake Whittlesey marks a decline of about 30 feet from the lower 

 Maumee level. Its shore line is generally parallel to the Maumee 

 ridges; and, in the western third of the sheet, very close to them. 



In the vicinity of Berlin Heights this shore line consists of a 

 beach ridge, rather coarse in texture. The nearness of a supply 

 of sandstone and the fact that the shore line trends to the south- 

 west, an alignment due to Huron bay on the Sandusky sheet, 



Fig. 2 Consult Fig. 1 for the Location of these Cross-Sections. In Each Case, 

 the Left Side is the Water Slope. 



account in part for the coarse texture. The beach materials 

 become finer as the ridge turns to the east. For a short distance 

 next, its location is not definite, though apparently it is followed 

 by the railroad siding to the stone quarry. Eastward from the 

 quarry the Whittlesey is a well developed beach ridge, and thus 

 continues for about a mile when it becomes a cliff cut around the 

 northern slope of a Berea outlier, the top of which is covered with 

 Maumee sands and gravels. 



