sink a pick into it. “Herdpan” <+i11 of this nature can be seen in 2» 
roadside excavation on tre north side of Blacksmith Shop Road, half 
a mile east of the Stete hizgmmy, Route 28. Here in 1939 a section 
10 feet high was exposed, cut entirely in gray sandy till containing 
many subangular boulders 7 racze up to 3 feet in. longest, dimen- 
sion, The upper few? here as . elsewhere is stained a 
rusty brown by weathering <x which also loosened the material 
so that-it is much less resistart to excavating tools» 
ike vib mentionsa 32 the sreceding oe the cliffs at 
Nocska Point near Yioods Eot2, and exvosures at several other: locali- 
ties show an inconspicuous streaking that resembles irregular layer-‘ 
ing or stratification in the compact till. This layering is produced 
Dy approximately horizortal, discontinuous, roughly parallel bands 
of silty material that rsarse in thickmess from that of a sheet of 
paper to about half arn rs however, represent dis- 
tinct layers of water- one might expect to find 
occasioraliy in the mi pseudo-stratification is 
round in till formed ers and is interpreted as the 
result of packing and the material under the weight of 
moving ice. Such packing el oe orsible, also, in part at least, 
for the greater compactzress oF the till at places where this lamina- 
tior occurs. -If this irterpretation is correct, it follows that the 
till et such places was plastered on the land beneath the glacier 
rather than let down sradvaliy py melting or evaporation of the ice. 
ied Sediments in the Morsize 
Buzzards Bay moraine where the 
ae silt, sand, or gravele These 
y fo) f till. They represent the de- 
pastes spread in local oF ee that formed close to the 
frayed and Pluctuating zal! e retreating glaciers 
Ore of the larger areas of this type inthe northern part of 
“the moraine is located three-siznths of a mile southeast of Signal 
Hill ard ecout three-fourths of a mile north of the Pocasset—Forest- 
dalé Road in the Pocasset cuadrangle. Here a conspicuous, treeless 
glade st en altitude of 250 feet is crossed by Signal Hill Road and 
SU irre coded 4:11 lmots that rise 50 feet. or more 
at p ~y few erratics lie on the surface of this 
pl t =z hills are thickly covered with them. A 
so i used for sampling subsurface-materials by 
bo ard bringing up the material “a few inches 
at this plain. It disclosed a fifteen-foot 
thicl i san, yelligw, medium to coarse sand containing a few 
i2h.2 place where sand presumably overlies 
ies wrere lake-ked deposits in the midst 
