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enters White River a mile below Gosport. Throughout the county it 

 has a wide, flat-floored picturesque inner valley, averaging a mile in 

 width, the sides of which range from 100 to 200 feet in height. In this 

 valley the present diminutive creek persists In keeping to the southwest 

 side. The slopes of the valley usually range somewhere between 25° and 

 40°; the steeper slopes being usually on the south side, the south slopes of 

 Ellet's hill and Mt. Tabor north of the creek being the only examples 

 to the contrary. Rimming the valley slopes are a number ; / benches of 

 variable widths, as has been previously noted, while projecting above the 

 alluvium of the valley are hummocks and ridges, "islands"' whose content 

 is precisely the same as the coiuitry rock on either side of the valley. 

 Beside these, tongues, promontories and tied-on ridges project into the 

 valley. 



This stream has had a varied history as has l)een already roughly out- 

 lined. It will l)e discussed under three heads, Preglacial. Glacial, and 

 Postglacial history. 



Preglacial History of BEA^' Blossom Creek, 



At the close of the Mississippian period, or later in preglacial time, 

 Bean Blossom Creek incised its channel to a depth much below its present 

 level. That the incision was made in preglacial time is indicated by the 

 following facts: (1) The old valley is now half filled with debris some 

 of which is glacial in origin. (2) Its tributaries to the north as well as 

 the wind gaps due to preglacial drainage likewise have glacial debris in 

 them. (3) The glacier which crossed the northwestern part of Monroe 

 County passed over and filled the creek, as is evidenced by the sand and 

 glacial drift left in its valley. Tliat the channel was deeper in preglacial 

 time than now is demonstrated by the following evidence: The creek 

 now meanders on a flat floor a mile in width. The floor, which is com- 

 posed of alluvium for the most part, is still being aggraded. (2) AYells 

 dug in the valley floor north of the channel, show that the loose material 

 has great thickness. Mr. James Hughes' well, at his home on the road 

 one mile east of ]Mt. Tabor nearly in the center of the southeast quarter 

 of section 10, is 65 feet deep, yet it does not penetrate the entire thickness 

 of the valley filling at that place. (3) Many of the meander-cut slopes 

 have been largely buried beneath the valley filling. (4) Many of the 

 tributary valleys, such as Jack's Defeat Creek, are aggraded for some 

 distance up stream. 



