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miles east of Stinesville. The saud near Andrew Stine's residence was 

 evidently deposited in water. That it was of glacial origin is attested 

 by the fact that it is banded with erratic gravel. The sand here is cross- 

 bedded, stratified and, in several instances, finely laminated. The lamina- 

 tion and stratification, however, are not constant. Towards the top of 

 this sand the stratification ceases. This top seems to have been of eolian 

 origin. This sand was deposited as an ont-Avash in front of the advancing 

 glacier after it had filled the channel of Beau Blossom. That it was 

 deposited in front of the advancing ice-sheet is clearly shown by evidence 

 that after its deposition the glacier passed over it, crushing it under its 

 weight until now the sand is almost as compact as the Knobstone forma- 

 tion beneath it. Still further evidence that the sand was deposited just 

 in front of the ice-sheet is the fact that the Bean Blossom was filled at 

 that point with ice. Had it been filled with sand instead of ice to the 

 level of the present deposits some remnants of the sand would still remain 

 on the south side of the inner valley of Bean Blossom Creek, which is 

 not the case. The sand in Ihe vicinity of Mt. Tabor and Gosport is very 

 fine and flour-like. It usually forms a loose or slightly compact, massive 

 bed twenty or more feet in thickness. Occasionally it shows indications 

 of stratification, but at no place is the stratification constant. In speak- 

 ing of this sand Mr. Siebenthal says that it seems to have been deposite<l 

 from high water resulting from a melting ice sheet.* It is therefore out 

 wash material. How it came to be deposited as it is, however, is quite 

 a mystery. The dejiosit is V-shaped with the apex to the west. A lime- 

 stone ridge separates its legs. On this ridge the sand is thin and suggests 

 by its distribution that it might be eolian in origin. It seems clear, then, 

 that the sand on the south side of the ridge musf have come around the 

 west end of the ridge instead of over it, and that the whole dieposit was 

 laid down in the slack water between Bean Blossom Creek and White 

 River at the time of the high water that accompanied the melting of the 

 Ice-sheet. This opinion is strengthened by the fact that the sand plain 

 gets lower and lower toward the east instead of higher as it would had the 

 sand come over the ridge. This conclusion is further strengthened liy the 

 fact that this sand does not occiu- on the current, or south side of the Bean 

 Blossom as it probably would had it not been deposited in slack water. 

 The sand, on the whole, seems to have been an eddy deposit. 



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