SOME GLACIAL WASH-PLAINS OF SOUTHERN 

 NEW ENGLAND.! 



BY J. B. WOODWORTH. 



CONTENTS. 



Introduction 



Bibliography 



The wash-plains of existing glaciers 



Heard Island wash-plain .... 



Alaskan wash-plains ..... 

 General characters of extraglacial wash 



Drainage creases 



Boulder-paved creases .... 



Kettle-holes, ice-block holes 



Inliers of older drift 



Loess-like cover 



Sandblasting and glyptoliths 



Superposition of plains by raised water-level 



Boulders and wash-plains .... 



leeward margin of wash-plains . 

 Geographical distribution of wash-plains in this field 



Plains of the terminal moraine . 



Nantucket plain 



Martha's Vineyard plain .... 



Plains of the Cape Cod moraine . 



Plains of Narragansett Bay region 



The Middleboro raorainal line . 



Providence-Bridgewatcr line 



Wronthara-Weymouth line of lakes . 



Woonsocket-Sharon line of plains 



Newtonville-Woodlaud wash-plains 



The Cambridge moraine and plain 



Sporadic plains 



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1 Published by permission of the Director of the U. S. Geological .Survey. 



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