738 GLACIAL FORMATIONS OF ERIE AND OHIO BASINS. 



tary than to tlie west. There are, however, low gravelly ridges hi the 

 vicinity of Cross station which seem to mark its continuation, and a gravel 

 deposit on the west bluff of Elk Creek opposite Grirard seems also to belong 

 to this beach. 



From Girard eastward the writer was accompanied by F. B. Taylor 

 in a search for the second Maumee beach. There appeared to us to have 

 been some wave action in the southeastern part of Girard at the inner 

 border of a moraine, but from that point to Fairview beach phenomena, if 

 present, are very obscure. At Fairview there is a gravel deposit at about 

 770 feet which is apparently a delta formed by Trout Run. It is immedi- 

 ately back of the Belmore beach and yet stands 25 to 30 feet above it. It 

 may have been formed in comiection with the Maumee beach, but of this 

 some uncertainty was felt. This uncertainty increased as we passed east- 

 ward to Swanville, for the morainic knolls there extend down to the border 

 of the Belmore beach, and so far as we could detect show no traces of wave 

 action at a level corresponding to the Maumee beach. Nor did we find any- 

 thing suggesting wave action above the Belmore beach between there and 

 Erie. In the southwestern part of Erie, however, is a plain south of the 

 waterworks reservoir at the right altitude for the Maumee beach, where 

 there are traces of water action, either by waves or by a current. There 

 is not a well-defined beach, but a fiat tract which leads westward from Mill 

 Creek to Cascade Creek has a definite south border rising in places like a 

 bank. It seems to us not unlikely that glacial waters may have discharged 

 westward throug'h this flat tract while the ice sheet was occupying a range 

 of drift knolls on which the reservoir stands. We certainl}- should not cite 

 this place as a clear indication of the presence of Lake Maiimee. 



Continuing eastward into New York we were xxuable to find any defi- 

 nite shore line above the Belmore beach. There were a few places where 

 the drift surface seemed to have been subjected to leveling hj water action, 

 but these appear at various altitudes and are chiefly above the level which 

 Lake Maumee would have reached. They seem better explained as the 

 work of water escaping along- the ice front while it was still closely bordering 

 the escarpment. The shore of Lake Maumee appears therefore to terminate 

 between Girard and Erie, Pa., and it is doubtful if the, lake had even a 

 transient extension farther east. By the time the ice sheet had withdrawn 

 beyond Erie the water had probably fallen to the level of the Belmore 

 beach, and Lake Whittlesey had succeeded Lake Maumee. 



