REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1901 r43 



Canastota. An east and west highway follows the more ancient 

 scourway for a mile. 



One of the most conspicuous banks of the entire series, and one 

 most readily seen, is in Canastota village, just east of the rail- 

 road station (see pi. 26). Like all the others the bluff is in 

 shale, nearly vertical and about 30 feet high. One half mile east 

 the railroads cut the projecting bluff. Still farther east the 

 waters excavated a pronounced concavity in the rock slope, 

 which still remains in timber (see pi. 27). Yet farther east the 

 bank is again convex, curving around the east end of the hill. 

 The height of the channel floor at the base of the Canastota bluff 

 is 430 feet, about the same as the railroads. 



Two miles east of Canastota the railroads make a cutting 

 through a gravel bar which was built in the shallow waters of 

 Lake Iroquois on the front of the delta built in the lake by 

 Cowaselon creek. The bar appears south of the railroads and 

 passes northeast, across the tracks, and crosses the highway 

 about J mile north of Wampsville station. The hight of the bar 

 is about 446 feet. The channel floors, east and west, are about 

 430 feet. 



About 2 miles west of Oneida is another bank which extends 

 along the railroads for over a mile and then curves around the 

 north side of the hill southwest of Oneida. The railroads have 

 so cut into the bluffs as to destroy or obscure the original 

 characters of the ancient banks. 



At Oneida is a broad embayment where the valley of Oneida 

 creek widens out into the low plain. During the glacial retreat 

 over the area this embayment was occupied by standing water, 

 and a variety of interesting phenomena are found, some of which 

 were noted in the former report. 



Channels between Oneida and Rome 

 Between Syracuse and Oneida the north edge of the high 

 ground has an east and west direction, and in consequence the 

 stream phenomena follow this course. Between Oneida and 

 Rome the trend of these features is to the northeast. Against 

 the northwest-facing slope the ice sheet rested for an indefinite 



