LOCAL GLACLATION IN CATSKILL MOUNTAINS 



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top Mountain, 3,448 feet, and Bloomberg Mountain, 3,360 feet. Three 

 spurs from the mountain divide the amphitheater into four minor 

 basins. It is within this amphitheater that the evidence of valley gla- 

 ciers mav be seen. 



Fig. 2. — Looking up the valley from the terminal moraine. In the center is the 

 hummocky moraine formed by the retreating glacier. One distinct loop may be 

 seen in the middle of the valley. On the extreme right the lateral continuation of 

 the terminal loop is shown running diagonally up the hillside. 



VALLEY GLACIERS 



In the central and largest of the four basins there lies a small lake^ 

 held up by a morainic loop which swings in a crescent across the val- 

 ley, then diagonally up the hill slope on either side. (Fig. i), taken from 

 the mountain a little below the snow, shown in Fig. 2, shows the lake 

 and moraine as they appear from the mountain side down which the 

 ice moved. It also clearly shows the hummocky surface in the fore- 



I The lake has been enlarged by a dam across its narrow outlet. 



