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Beach, and Chappaquoit, Island have smoother surfaces with few ket- 
tlese This suggests that they were either plastered beneath the ad- 
vaneing ice or overridden by local readvances of its margin during 
the episode of recessions 
Some of these till knobs were deposited as a veneer on glacio- 
fluvial gravels that rise above the surrounding outwash from the Cape 
Cod Bay lobe. This may be seen in Falmouth Cliffs at the south end 
of Old Silver Beach, in the cliff at the northeast entrance to West 
Falmouth Harbor, and ina gravel pit on the south side of the hill 
at the rorth end of Wings Pond. in the southeast corner of the Onset 
quadrangle. The sand and gravel of such floors must, of course, te 
outwash from the Buzzards Bay. lobee 
Scorton Moraine 
Location, Characteristics and Origin 
The name, Scorton moraine, is applied in this paper to a group 
of elongate hills near the shore of Cape Cod Bay that stand in a 
discontinuous line or chain north of and essentially parallel to the 
Sandwich moraine. These hills, spaced at unequal intervals from 
Sagamore Village through Sandwich to Rarnstable and surrounded by 
lov plains of sand,include the hill at the northern edge of Sagamore 
Village, Sagamore Hill, Town Neck.Hill, Spring Hill, Scorton Neck, 
and Scortor Hill. It-.is possible that other hills located in simi- 
lar positions east of the areas studied represent a continuation of 
this Scorton moraine. : St 
The surface of each of these hills is hummocky and irregular 
with small kettle-holes as much as 25 feet deep, but the topography 
is not so rough as that of most of the Sandwich moraine. Farther- 
more each segment of the Scorton moraine is sprinkled with angular 
blocks. As in the Sandwich moraine these are not closely packed nor 
‘are they very abundant, but some of them are of remarkable size. 
The sutdued irregularity and the presence of these blocks suggest 
that these hills were formed at the edge of the ice sheet. 
The structure characteristic of these hills is well exposed in 
a pit on U. S. highway, Route 6, at the south side ard rear the west 
end of Scorton Neck. At this locality, sandy till, 6 to 8 feet thick 
and including irregular clumps of sand, rests. on bedded sand that 
sorntains thin seams of gravele A small pit on the hummocky top of 
Spring Hill (1 mile northwest of East Sandwich) has been excavated 
in. compact till. The soil auger disclosed that this till likewise 
rests on tedded sand a few feet below the floor of the pit. On the 
northeast slope of this hill, stratified sandy gravel has teen ex 
cavated for surfacing a cranberry bog nearby.e There are similar in- 
dicatiors that both the hill north of Sagamore Village and Scorton 
Hill are also underlain by sandy gravel and veneered with till. 
The manner inwhich the ice deposited this discontinuous moraine 
is not yet cleare Further study in adjacent areas must precede final 
irferences corcerning the origin of the moraine and its associated 
deposits, but some conclusions and tentative working hypotheses can 
be developed from the information now available. 
