final recession of the 
and abundant errati 
i the Ellisville moraines 
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ice northeastward f 
= 
fhe send and gra mes Dresent, in art at least, a floor of 
ceposits over which the ice had advanced be- 
AE 
fore it bude the righ sville moraine. Such a 
gher srourd of the ae 
floor beneath till is well exzsessd ix cli ffs along the shore on the 
east side of heast of Vallersville, and 
may continue soe eae arease Fart of 
cee stratifi eri ¥ ceen formed during fluctuations 
© the border 3 Ss producing the moraine. The 
ean that und ea over which there is no till 
may have nel of till after the ice had with- 
Grawn vermanently 
Southeast of Hio Hill there is 2n almost boulder-free area that 
is lower and smoother than tre terrain surrounding ite. This trough. 
is roughly triangular with en apex. about a quarter of a mile north 
of Savery Fond and its base tetreen =io Hill and Long Swamp. Except 
for the fact that its surface erea is much larger and is full of 
small knoos and kettles,this area resembles the local patches under- 
lein by sravel that are comoniy found within the Buzzards Bay mo- 
raire. The kettles demorstrate that there were ice blocks beneath 
it after t thd the possibility that this 
surface re which ths ice moved, for 
ar kettle advance, they would have 
been filled. area is preted as. a glacio-fluvrial 
deposit that was formed almost comenp sporaneous ly with the adjacent 
hillocks of till during accumietion of the moraines 
The irregular ‘mots of till in the area northeast of the- pluf 
that extends from Salt.Fond trrouzh Sllisville are. essentially con- 
tinuous: with the materia? i nizner parts of. the moraine. They 
were deposited only a after the bluff was producede If 
the interpreta che slope which forms the north- 
west border sely along Ship,Pond Road) marks 
a contact. oi raterials southeast of it, then 
the main bo have stood close to this area, even 
arter most padi were in place. In other words, 
tre till de wer terrain were formed during the. same 
gereral epi oF ice recession as those in the 
hichber cerr therefore be included in the territory 
mapped as t isville morainee , i 
nozthe Wareham pitted-plain is in= 
shis braqad outwash plain extends 
moraine to the shores of Big Rut- 
Suzzards Bay, in the south- 
sie. Its extent westward ais 
y of adjacent areas shows that 
Wareham quadransle, extends 
Maromet quadrangle, and. occupies 
