OTHEK GLACIAL DEPOSITS IN THE VICINITY 425 



rising by very gentle slopes to the height of 25 to 40 feet above the gen- 

 eral level of the flat surrounding country. With steeper slopes the kame 

 rises to a flat or moderately undulating top, which may be called a 

 plateau, 70 to 80 feet above the same level, having an area of 50 acres 

 or more. 



In addition to its basal tract, till may also form a nucleus of the higher 

 kame; for beside the road on the line between sections 29 and 30 an 

 excavation 5 to 6 feet deep, near the top of the southern slope, is in part 

 true till, which is seen to a thickness of 4 feet and continues lower. 

 Thence for an eighth of a mile north, on the highest part of the road, 

 and for 500 feet or more east and west from the road, granitic boulders 

 up to 5 or 6 feet in diameter are frequent in and on the sand and gravel 

 that form the surface, probably belonging to an underlying till very 

 thinly veneered with modified drift. 



Sunnyside Cemetery, on the highest eastern part of this kame plateau, 

 has an extensive view for several miles eastward and southward; but 

 toward the west a far view is prevented by the low oak woods with which 

 the kame is covered, except clearings of a few acres designed for cultiva- 

 tion but abandoned because of their gravelly and sandy soil. 



On its east border the kame deposit of the Moose Nose has been ex- 

 tensively excavated for ballasting the Canadian Pacific Eailway, being 

 removed by a branch line running south. The whole excavation, a quar- 

 ter of a mile long, from 10 to 200 feet wide, and exposing a section 25 

 to 40 feet deep, consists of gravel and sand, which continue lower, with 

 no till nor even a single boulder. About a fourth part is clear sand, in 

 layers up to 2 feet thick; the other three-fourths are gravel, varying in 

 coarseness to occasional layers holding cobbles up to 8 or 12 inches in 

 diameter, or quite rare up to 18 inches, all well water-worn. Nearly all 

 the pebbles and cobbles are limestone. The stratification is horizontal, 

 with infrequent cross-bedding, which, wherever observed, dips a few de- 

 grees to the east. All the section is very definitely stratified, and it has 

 no fault lines nor places of confused or obscured layers. 



Oak Hummock, in the southeast part of section 12, township 11 north, 

 range 4 east, also extending a third of a mile east into section 7 of the 

 next township, lying thus 3 miles south of the Moose Nose, has nearly 

 as great area but less height, rising only 45 to 50 feet above the sur- 

 rounding level. It has an oval outline a mile long from west to east and 

 two-thirds of a mile wide. This hill consists mainly of kame gravel and 

 sand, but has an underlying rounded accumulation of till, which rises 

 to a height of about 30 feet, or two-thirds as high as the kame deposit. . 



A shallow but long cut across the northern side of this hill has been 



-Bull. Geol. Soc. Am,, Vol. 21, 1909 



