THE QUEEN'S RIVER MORAINE IN RHODE ISLAND/ 



In the autumn of 1894 Mr. F. C. Schrader and the first-named 

 author of this paper, while traversing the western boundary of 

 the Narragansett basin in Rhode Island, as members of Mr. N. 

 S. Shaler's party, came upon an heretofore undescribed frontal 

 moraine of large bowlders in the town of Exeter, R. I. This 

 moraine is locally known in its strongest development on the 

 south side of Shrub Hill on the farm of Mr. N. C. Reynolds as 

 "Cat Rocks," and at another locality not far northward as "The 

 Queen's Kitchen." (See Fig. i.) Subsequent to this visit, 

 Marbut undertook under the direction of the senior author to 

 trace out this bowlder belt and to determine the indications, if 

 any, of the front of the ice where the bowldery accumulation 

 was feebly developed or wanting. In the following pages, are 

 stated the observations of Woodworth regarding the moraine at 

 Cat Rocks and of Marbut on the extension of the moraine north- 

 eastward and southwestward. 



The Queen's River bowlder belt is one of a series of well- 

 developed moraines crossing southern Rhode Island. The 

 outermost of these lines, that of Block Island, is imperfectly 

 revealed. The next in succession northward, the Charlestown 

 moraine, skirting the southern coast, is of the knob-and-basin 

 type and is apparently submarginal in its origin. The Queen's 

 River moraine lies at an average distance of twelve miles north 

 of the last named. Investigation has not yet determined 

 whether there is an intermediate moraine or not. All the 

 moraines thus described lie west of a tolerably well marked 

 interlobate axis passing northward from near Point Judith and 

 thus west of East Greenwich toward Woonsocket. East of this 

 line, the ice ran out through the Narragansett Bay depression in 



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