456 J. D. Dana—‘‘Kames” of the Connecticut River Valley. 
The preceding figure is part of a section, given on p. 45 of 
the Report, intended to show the general features of the south- 
ern part of this kame ridge (exaggerated relatively in height) 
in Hartland and Windsor; and the following (from p. 40) is a 
transverse section of the Connecticut valley ‘through "the Hart- 
“ i Hartland 
§ Det. oe: § é oo 
= > 42t. 
Transverse Section in Hartland and Plainfield. 
land deposits, exhibiting the position of the kame just west of 
the river channel, and its relation to the terrace-formation and 
the several terraces of the valle ey. 
he adjoining figure, from page 37 of Upham’s Report, will 
help further to explain the au- 
> _ thor’s views. It represents the 
5 
k a 
ae _zen Hanover “kame,” with the out- 
: ~\ 4 line of the terrace- plains on the 
+ r [a opposite sides of the Connecticut. 
Of the Hanover Kame. kon the LHe kame, &, is represented as 
the Connecticut Eive er, fe "my constituting a ridge, coarsely 
east enide: of 
the yh underlying rocks; «@, ter- 
race in Norwich 305 fee high above mean- stratified, buried beneath the ter- 
e level and 132 feet above low water in 
tl river; 6, terrace in Hanover 515 to 5445 race formation, up to its very top 
feet high. ’ 
on the landward side, but uncov- 
ered on the side toward the river. A _ section taken a little 
farther north would have exhibited the “kame” projecting 
above the terrace-plain. 
‘“Kames” are also described as occurring in the valley to the 
north, but at long intervals. 
_ As to origin 
F. 1i6, The kames “were deposited, as explained on pages 
13 and 14, by glacial rivers, at the final melting of the ice sheet, 
in channels formed u pon the surface of the ice. When the border- 
ing ice-walls and a separating ridges and masses disappeared, 
the gravel and sand ern | in long steep ridges, or in irreg- 
ular bre Hs and moun 
P. 44. The infrequency of angular fragments and bowlders 
anes ee the kame of the valley was formed in an open ice- 
channel.” P. 14. On the ice in these “channels were deposited 
and by the strong currents of summer, layers of gravel, often 
