The s sard plain is indented with shal- 
low groove by small streams. ‘This is evident” 
at the hea £ cere ies in the salt marshes which fringe 
Cape Cod Bay. In Sancywich eaeee ea like narrow fingers into the 
low sand plain. The pattern they’ make is that of valleys cut by 
streams, on a gertle and unifoy resistant slopes Such erosion also 
lowered tre surface level of the ‘intervening divides or remnants of 
sand plairn,especially wrere tre valleys are large ardclose togethers 
The northward slope of remnants of the plain which lie between 
converging valleys ~ey siso te attributed to this dissection. Since 
he lower ends of 211 these valleys have been submerged 
this erosion the 
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by the rise it marshes have clogged the long shal- 
low taySe 22n cut cy waves and swept by shore currents 
from exposed headlards to build protecting beaches like Town Neck 
and Springhill Beach: tetreer <aese salt marshes and the open water 
of Cape Cod Bay, and winds have transported sand from the beaches to 
form the Barnstactle dures. 
oraine and Wareham Pitted Plain 
Moraine 
Cheracter of the Ellisville 
of very irrezaler topography which stands generally 
he cert countryside and is dotted with thousands of 
eds nortmrestvard from the shore of Cape Cod Bay 
le into the area rorth of the Sagamore ‘quadrangle. Maps 
uadrangles show that similar topography 
ral miles beyond the territory thus 
irear extent and because it is made 
sandy till,the writers have’ called this belt tentative- 
j 5 raphic location of this deposit, 
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of modification of its original 
his is another recessional moraine 
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are those of the Buzzards Bay and Sandwich mo- 
iaily ae. or. the southwest side where no dis- 
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