THE 



JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 



MAY-JUNE, i go i 



GLACIAL AND INTERGLACIAL BEDS NEAR 

 TORONTO 



An article on the present subject was published in 1895 m 

 the Journal of Geology; 1 but the five years since that time 

 have added so much to the completeness of our knowledge of 

 this important Pleistocene area as to justify a fresh account of 

 the region. At the Toronto meeting of the British Association 

 in 1897 the series of interglacial beds for which Professor 

 Chamberlin had suggested the name "Toronto Formation" 

 aroused so much interest that a committee was appointed for its 

 investigation and grants were made at this and the two follow- 

 ing meetings to cover the expense of excavations to solve some 

 problems in connection with the beds. The final report of the 

 committee, prepared by its secretary, the present writer, with a 

 separate report on Pleistocene plants in Canada by Professor 

 Penhallow, was made at Bradford in 1900, summing up the facts 

 and giving lists of the interglacial fauna and flora, thus provid- 

 ing the materials for a more complete discussion of the events 

 recorded in the "drift" of the region than has been attempted 

 before. 



The interglacial beds of Scarboro' near Toronto were first 

 studied more than 20 years ago by the well-known English pale- 



'Jour. Geol., Vol. Ill, No. 6, pp. 622, 645. 

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