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the form of a lobe and west of the line indicated lay a wide but 

 less well defined lobe of the ice-sheet. The general relations of 

 the Queen's River moraine to the frontal deposits known in this 

 field are shown on the accompanying sketch map of Rhode 







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Fig. I. — Queen's River Moraine, "Cat Rocks." View loolcing nortlaeast from 

 a point near the top slrowing tlie piling of bowlders successively from the north side. 



Island (Fig. 2). The moraine is, in general terms, an upland 

 phase of the sand-plains which mark the frontal stages of the 

 ice-sheet in the Narragansett Bay region. The Queen's River 

 moraine is probably contemporaneous with one of the frontal 

 deposits which occur in the vicinity of Wickford Junction on the 

 east side of the interlobate axis named. 



Inasmuch as the bowlder belt at the Cat Rocks locality 

 presents a form of accumulation capable of a somewhat extended 

 diagnosis and furnishes criteria for determining the relations of 



