PRE-WISCONSIN DRIFT IN THE FINGER LAKE REGION 
OF NEW YORK 
FRANK CARNEY 
CONTENTS 
INTRODUCTION. 
PrE-WISCONSIN DRIFT IN GENERAL. 
Geographical factor. 
TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROL OF THE EROSION AND DEPOSITION OF DRIFT. 
Deposition of drift. 
Erosion of drift. 
INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD Drirt THUS PRESERVED. 
TOPOGRAPHY OF THE FINGER LAKE REGION. 
Favors both ice-erosion and ice-stream aggradation. 
LocaTION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PRE-WISCONSIN DRIFT IN QUESTION. 
First indication of such drift. 
Western slope of Bluff Point. 
Eastern slope of Bluff Point. 
The North Crosby exposure. 
Mixed exposures. 
Keuka Lake Outlet exposure. 
Erosion and color. 
AGE OF THIS DRIFT. 
SUMMARY. 
INTRODUCTION 
With old drift on Long Island, in New Jersey,? and in north- 
western Pennsylvania, it is very likely that a line of old drift should 
connect these areas. If, however, these localities of old drift repre- 
sent ice-work from separate dispersion centers, then the re-entrant 
tJ. B. Woodworth, New York State Museum Bulletin 48 (1901), pp. 618-70; 
M.L. Fuller, American Geologist, Vol. XXXII (1903), pp. 308-12; A.C. Veatch, Journal 
of Geology, Vol. XI (1903), pp. 762-76. 
2 R. D. Salisbury, Geological Survey of New Jersey, Annual Report for 1593, pp. 
73, etc.; Vol. V (1902), pp. 187-89; 751-82. 
3 F. Leverett, Monograph XLI, U.S. Geological Survey (1902), p. 228; L. H. 
Woolsey, Beaver Folio, No. 134 (Pennsylvania), U. S. Geological Survey (1905), p. 7. 
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