560 GLACIAL FORMATIONS OF ERIE. AND OHIO BASINS. 



In the Indiana portion of the moraine the following include the deepest 

 well sections obtained: On a plane tract north of the moraine in sec. 31, 

 T. 26, R. 15 E., David Studebaker made a boring- for oil which penetrated 

 62 feet of till and 18 feet of sand before striking the Lockport (Niagara) 

 limestone. Six miles south from Studebaker's, on the crest of the moraine, 

 in sec. 32, T. 25, R. 15 E., Gr. Cramer made one well which entered rock at 

 60 feet and another at 51 feet. In each there is about 40 feet of till, below 

 which is sand and gravel. A mile south of Mr. Cramer's there are quarries. 

 At Geneva, only 5 miles west of these quarries, on ground equally low, the 

 drift is 390 feet in thickness. A gas boring made here penetrated 80 feet 

 of till, below which for 310 feet there is reported to be nothing but sand. 

 The first rock encountered was the Hudson River shales, the overlying 

 limestone being entirely removed. On a preceding page attention was 

 called to the connection of the valley here strack with an equally deep 

 one at the Grrand Reservoir in western Ohio. The Wabash River is now 

 flowing, in this portion of its course, in a postglacial valley near the level 

 of the rock surface of preglacial uplands, for the bed in several places has 

 a rocky floor, but the bluffs are entirely of drift. Throughout much of its 

 course from the State line to Huntington the bluff's are very low, averaging 

 scarcely 30 feet in height. 



On the crest of the moraine IJ miles west of the Adams and Wells 

 county line a well strikes limestone at 92 feet, the following being its 

 section: 



Well on Wabash moraine in eastern Wells Ootmty, Ind. 



Feet. 



Yellow till 15 



Blue till : 45 



Gravelly clay with beds of clear gravel 32 



Limestone _• 7 



Total 99 



At Kingsland, in Wells County, a village situated near the inner border 

 of the moraine, one well strikes limestone at 80 feet, but another of the 

 same depth enters a water-bearing gravel at the bottom. At each well 

 there was about 15 feet of yellow and 65 feet of blue till. A few miles 

 west of Kingsland, near Uniondale, on the outer border of the moraine, 

 rock has been struck in several places at 40 feet or less, and in one instance 

 at 18 feet. The drift here consists of 10 to 20 feet of till underlain by fine 



