Education Department Bulletin 



Published monthly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1908, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y. under 

 the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 442 . ALBANY, N. Y. March i, 1909 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 



Museum bulletin 127 

 GLACIAL WATERS IN CENTRAL NEW YORK 



BY 



H. L. FAIRCHILD 



INTRODUCTION 



Scope of the paper. Several of the earlier papers by the writer 

 described the glacial lakes or standing waters held in central New 

 York by the waning glacier [see the bibliographic list, p. 59, titles 

 16, 25, 26]. Later writings have for their subject the glacial 

 drainage channels and the ice-impour.d3d waters east of Syracuse 

 [titles 27, 28, 31] and west of Batavia [title 37]. The present writing 

 describes the ice border drainage in central New York and dis- 

 cusses the relation of this stream flow to the standing waters of 

 the region and to both the eastern and western escape. 



While the drainage features of the district are conspicuous and 

 their origin by the work of glacial rivers is perfectly evident yet 

 their sequence in time and their relations to the lake waters are 

 not clear without careful study of the entire region. The glacial 

 lake history in central New York is somewhat more complicated 

 than has been supposed, and the drainage phenomena are involved 

 in the problems. 



Maps. The key map, plate 1, shows the channels in a generalized 

 way from the neighborhood of Batavia east to Utica and Little 

 Falls, thus covering all the territory on the east described in former 

 writings. The key map published in the State Museum bulletin 



