14 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BUFFALO MEETING. 



NOTES ON THE GLACIAL SUCCESSION IN EASTERN MICHIGAN 



BY F. B. TAYLOR 



An abstract of this paper is printed in the American Geologist, vol. 

 xviii, p. 234, October, 1896. 



ORIGIN OF THE HIGH TERRACE DEPOSITS OF THE MONONGAHELA RIVER 



BY I. C. WHITE 



An abstract of this paper is printed in the American Geologist, vol. 

 xviii, p. 227, October, 1896, and the paper in full is published in the De- 

 cember Geologist. 



ORIGIN OF TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES IN NORTH CAROLINA 



BY COLLIER COBB 



POST-CRETACEOUS GRADE-PLAINS IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND 



BY F. P. GULLIVER 



A short abstract is printed in the American Geologist, vol. xviii, p. 231, 

 October, 1896. 



PRE-CAMBRIAN BASELEVELTNG IN THE NORTHWESTERN STATES 



BY C. W. HALL 



BASIC PITCHSTONE AND MUD ENCLOSURES OF THE TRIASSIC TRAP OF NEW 



ENGLAND 



BY B. K. EMERSON 



The paper is printed in full in this volume. 



ORIGIN OF CONGLOMERATES OF WESTERN INDIANA 

 BY T. C. HOPKINS 



[Abstract] 



It would form an interesting chapter in geology to trace out the history of that 

 widespread heavy bed of conglomerate occurring at the base of the Coal Measures 

 and which ushered in the great coal-making period. Although the present paper 

 deals only with that part of the bed which occurs in the state of Indiana, it has to 

 that extent a bearing on the general question of the origin of conglomerates. 



The conglomerate in Indiana forms a belt from half a mile to six miles or more 

 in width, which extends from north of the middle of the state line on the west in 

 an east of south direction to a point southwest of the middle of the state line on 

 the south, and which passes in one direction into Illinois and in the other into 

 Kentucky. 



Like all the rocks in Indiana, the conglomerate has a general southwest dip. It 

 is overlain by the productive Coal Measures which outcrop to the west, and under- 



