NOTES ON THE MORAINE OF THE GLACIER SOUTH- 

 WEST OF TOPEKA. 



By L. C. WoosTER. State Normal College, Emporia. 



MR. B. B. SMYTH, in volume XIV of the Transactions of this 

 Academy, described the course of this moraine through 

 Shawnee county, and I desire merely to add a little concerning the 

 boulders in the moraine near Burnett's mound. 



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KANSAS GLACIER MORAINE, 

 Southwest of Topeka, near Burnett's Mound. 



The drift in the ridge studied was less than eighteen feet thick, 

 as was shown by a well on the ridge. A roadside excavation ex- 

 posed about six feet of drift, stratified above and mostly unstrali- 

 fied beldw. One or two boulders were in positions of unstable 

 equilibrium, as in all moraines not water-laid. The drift consisted 

 of northern and local material. Fine-grained quartzite predomi- 



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