ae a 
ore réceded mary =i 
havior on western Cape Code Thei 
present morth shore of the case 
remained there long enough to 
the Mashpee pitted plein,- in 
a gently sloping fan with its 
the junction of the two lobese 
en aie: a 2 the northern and western edges 
of the pitted plain, a=4 remained theré long enough ‘to. pile the till 
of what is called herein the Buzzards Ray moraine and the ‘Sandwich 
moraire over the These moraines were.considered.as 
a single contiruots urtt ty Woodworth, which he’ called the "Falmouth 
moraine e" ror reasozs stated below, however, it is-helieved. that 
this slight readvance of the-two lobes was not simultaneous and that 
the ‘eastern arm of fiootrorctn's Salmouth moraine can be distinguished 
from the part that exterds southvestward paralleling Buzzards Raye 
The Buzzards Bay lore laid doxm its recessional moraine at ‘the edge 
of the pitted plain somewhat earlier than did the Cape Cod Ray lobe, 
so that the Sandvicn moraine Sane te and lies upon the northern end 
or the Buzzards Bay moraine rear the Cape Cod Canale 
_ After the Cspe_ Sod Sey ee had shrunk tack, spreading more 
wtwash in its wakes, north of Sandwich moraine, another ‘episode of 
colder or more rumid cond 's drove it forward again,:not so far 
as.tefrore, but far enouzh to deposit a smaller, narrower, less con- 
tinuous moraine, the Scorton moraine, upon this. later outwash. The 
Buzzards Bay lobe aprerertly left no easily-recognized record of 
‘similar readvance, altnouch possitly sucha record lies concealed 
tereath the water of Suczards Bay or is represented by small patches 
of till on top of gravel tetween the moraine ard the Ray shores 
: Durirg a later epi ‘of retreat the ice front-of the Buzzards 
— 
s rorthvestward, perhaps as far as -Kingston 
t 
and South Duxbury tefore ited. The Cape Cod Bay lobe withdrew 
likewise northward into tre e then its southwestern margin pushed 
‘forward again ard stood for a tong time ina zone extending northwest 
rrom the vicinity of Zilisville toward Plymouth. Here it tuilta 
third prominent recessioral ewe hich is called the Ellisville 
moraire for the présexus o 
. The Buzzards Bay loce had left enormous blocks of ice in what 
must have been a cortimious valley area close to the southvest mar- 
Zin of the Bllisville moraize. These are now marked by the deep, 
elongate depressiors tzat contain Great Herring Poni, Little Herring 
.Pornd, Sloody Ford, anc long Fond in the Sagamore quadrangle. © These 
tloéks were covered my a compound fan of outwash gravels ard sands 
poured out sonthwestwerd from the Cape Cod Ray lore simultaneously 
with its construction of the #llisville moraine. Thus the blocks 
ace : Swash plain, the Wareham pitted plain, was 
melted avay to form ee kettle-holes 
-tiorship of the Warekam pitted plain to 
i is different from ae relationship 
its bordering mornAinese The south-= 
moraine is irregular and difficult 
the Wareham pitted plain slope up 
