ALBION MORAINE. 7U1 



RELATION TO LAKE WARREN. 



The highest points on this moraine stand more than 100 feet below 

 the level of the neighboring- part of the beach of Lake Warren, while the 

 lowest parts are several hnndred feet below the level of that lake. On 

 theoretical grounds the ice sheet apj^ears to have terminated in that lake at 

 the time the Barre moraine was forming. On this assumption its deposits 

 are all water-laid. It seems remarkable that under these conditions assorted 

 material, and especially coarse gravel beds, should form, so prominent con- 

 stituents of the drift. There being no line of rapid escape for the waters 

 from the ice margin, it would seem natural for the fine material to be laid 

 down with the coarse, though possibly there was sufficiently vigorous 

 movement of water under the ice to cause much assorting of its deposits 

 and removal of fine material. 



ALBION MORAINE. 

 DISTRIBUTION. 



The course of this moraine has been accurately traced only from 

 Albion eastward to Rochester, but it has been crossed on the New York 

 Central Railroad, directly south of Knovvlesville, and appears from the con- 

 tours of the Medina- topographic sheet to come to the Erie Canal 1 J miles 

 west of Knowlesville, and to be continued westward in a series of knolls 

 on the borders of Oak Orchard Creek, 1 to 3 miles north of Medina. 

 From the railway ci'ossing south of Knowlesville to Albion the crest of 

 the moraine is less than a mile south of the New York Central Railroad, 

 and is followed by a "ridge road." The moraine is scarcely one-fourth of 

 a mile in width, but presents a ver}^ definite ridge. It is cut through by 

 Sandy Creek near the southeast edge of the city of Albion, but the gap is 

 very narrow, and the ridge continues to the Albion Cemetery, IJ miles east 

 of the city, where it rises into greater prominence. 



There are minor ridges and small knolls and also basins in Albion and 

 eastward to the cemetery, extending out to a distance of nearly a mile north 

 of the main ridge, but west from Albion such features are rare. 



At Albion Cemetery there is a knoll standing nearly 100 feet above 

 low ground on the south and 60 to 75 feet above the neighboring parts of 

 the moraine. Toward the east the moraine continues with sharp ridges and 



