24 Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 



Soil: — It is desirable to give some consideration to the char- 

 acter of the various kinds of soils of the region about the lake; 

 for the soil determines in some measure many of the physical and 

 biological factors which influence the lake more or less directly, 

 such as the topography of the country, the flora, fauna, clearness 

 and purity of the water, and the lake bed. 



The Lake Maxinkuckee region is highly favored in that it con- 

 tains many kinds of soils, which the glaciers brought down and 

 deposited about the lake. Speaking broadly, it may be said that 

 the soil about Lake Maxinkuckee is composed chiefly of sand. 

 There are a few isolated areas of clay, usually of small extent, 

 and even they usually have a considerable proportion of sand 

 mixed with the clay. The west and south sides of the lake are 

 more sandy than the east and north. Long Point is a high sand 

 ridge underlain with gravel, and is continued out into the lake a 

 considerable distance beyond the shore in a long sandbar in shal- 

 low water. In somie places, at the southeast corner of the lake, 

 there is considerable gravel and clay mixed with the sand, and 

 at a few places on the north and east sides, and one place at the 

 southwest corner, there are a good many boulders of moderate 

 size. There are only six places about the lake where there is any 

 marsh; two of these are on the north end, two on the south, and 

 one each on the east and west. The west one of those on the north 

 is in the vicinity of the Morris boathouse and is of small extent, 

 the other is on Aubeenaubee Bay at the northeast corner of the 

 lake. This is of. considerable extent, but the western part of it 

 has been filled in by the improvements at the Culver Academy 

 grounds. The marshy tract on the east side lies about the mouth 

 of Aubeenaubee Creek and extends eastward to near the head of 

 that creek. At the southeast corner of the lake is the largest and 

 lowest area of marsh ; this lies along Norris Inlet, and several 

 acres are entirely too marshy to permit walking over. Near the 

 middle of the south end is another small area of low ground which 

 at times is under water. The remaining patch of marsh is on the 

 south of Outlet Bay and west of Long Point. This is known as 

 Green's marsh and is in the shape of a narrow strip on the north- 

 west side of Long Point, widening to the westward and covering 

 several acres just south of the Outlet. 



The soils of the catchment basin of Lake Maxinkuckee have 

 been classified by the United States Bureau of Soils^ as Miami 



1 Soil Survey of Marshall County, Indiana, by Frank Bennett and Charles W. Ely, Field 

 Operations of the Bureau of Soils, 1904, pp. 689-706, with map. 



