736 GLACIAL FORMATIONS OF ERIE AND OHIO BASINS. 



the second Maumee beach. It is finely developed at a cemetery a half 

 mile south of Madison and seems to be about 25 feet higher than the 

 Belmore beach. The beach here is 100 to 150 yards wide and stands 

 nearly 10 feet above the plain north of it. It has been opened for gravel 

 to a depth of 10 feet. A mile farther east it presents a cut bank nearly 

 10 feet in height, but from the vicinity of Unionville nearlj^ to Saybrook 

 there is usually a gravelly ridge 3 to 6 feet or more in height. For 5 

 miles east from Madison it stands but one-fourth to one-half mile south 

 of the Belmore beach. The courses of the beaches there diverge, until 

 near the corners of Greneva, Saybrook, Harpersfield, and Austinburg town- 

 ships the Maumee shore is a mile south of the Behnore beach. From 

 these township corners toward Saybrook the}^ converge and become united 

 in a single prominent bank soutli of that village. 



From Saybrook to Ashtabula the bank is 20 to 30 feet or more in 

 height. Its base is followed by the Belmore beach, while its top stands 

 near the level of the second Maumee beach. There are sandy deposits 

 along the brow, which may perhaps represent the second Maumee beach. 

 Sand deposits were found, however, near the standpipe of the Ashtabula 

 waterworks at a higher .altitude than the second Maumee beach, the altitude 

 of the standpipe, as given by levels at the city engineer's office, being 216 

 feet above the zero of the Government gauge at Ashtabula harbor, and the 

 crest of the sand ridge near it, 2^ feet higher, or about 79(> feet above 

 tide. This altitude is in harmony with that of the upper Maumee shore, 

 but is about 20 feet above the second Maumee beach of that region. 

 Whether it should be taken as an indication that Lake Maumee extended 

 to this point at its upper stage is not clear. Being composed entirely of 

 sand, there is a possibility that it was formed by wind action, in which case 

 it may stand considerably above the lake level. 



East of Ashtabula Creek the Belmore beach is fineh' developed south 

 of the Nickel Plate Railroad at an altitude of 170 to 175 feet above Lake 

 Erie. South of it there appears to be wave cutting on the inner slope of 

 the Ashtabula moraine at about 195 feet above Lake Erie, or 765 to 770 

 feet above tide. About midway between Ashtabula and Kingsville sand 

 knolls set in at a level 190 to 200 feet or more above Lake Erie and con- 

 tinue eastward to Kingsville. They are 10 to 30 feet high and cap the 

 highest points on the moraine. Near Kingsville a well-defined g-ravelly 



