IXDEX. 



755 



Megatherium, 436. 



Melville Bay, 92. 



Mer de Glace of Switzerland, 3, 4, 10; of 



Greenland 87, 89, 90. 

 Merjelen Sea, 364. 

 Merrimack River, 330, 331, 343, 344, 350, 



660. 

 Mesozoic era, absence of glacial epochs 



during the, 515, 518. 

 Metuchen, X. J., 142. 

 Metz, Dr. C. L., finds palaeolithic imple- 



ments at Loveland and Madisonville, 



Ohio, 619, 642, 644, 645. 



i 

 Michigan, buried channel in, 306; salt 



deposits of, 464. 



Middle Bass Island, 262. 



Migrations of plants and animals, 422, et 

 seq., 506, 513, 665. 



Milan, Ind., 602. 



Milk River, 334. 



Mill Creek, 300, 301, 393, 643, 644. 



Minneapolis, Minn., 211, 212, 303, 315, 

 361, 552, 554, 655, 660. 



Minnesota, driftless area of, 134; depth of 

 ice in, 201; terminal moraines in, 211-213, 

 525, 613, 655, 661 et seq.; varieties of drift 

 in, 213; depth of drift in, 258, 555; drum- 

 lins absent in, 287; waterfalls in, 303, 552 

 et seq.; delta terraces in, 334; occasional 

 kames in, 353; lakes of, 361; loess in, 416; 

 preglacial man in, 438, 653 et seq.; post- 

 glacial erosion in, 552 et seq. ; buried chan- 

 nel in, 553 et seq.; wells in, 555, 605, 607; 

 vegetable deposits in, 605; palaeolithic 

 discoveries in, 619, 653 et seq. 



Minnesota River, 214, 315, 316, 336, 354, 361, 



M362, 554-556, 558, 559. 

 ississippi River, 136, 171, 203, 354, 357, 

 358, 361, 389, 417, 527, 634, 655, 656, 665; 

 preglacial channels of, 311; preglacial 

 erosion of, 228, 298, 315, 496; loess of the 

 valley of, 256, 410 et seq., 415; glacial drain- 

 age of, 313, 314; terraces on, 315, 415, 558, 

 654; post-glacial erosion in, 315, 552 et seq., 

 665; rate of transportation by the, 562. 



Missouri coteau in British America, 135, 

 176, 217 et seq. ; source of, 244. 



Missouri coteau in Dakota, 215, 217, 332, 

 333. 



Missouri, glacial boundary in, 172, 415; 

 bowlders in, 243. 



Missouri River, 172-175, 215, 220, 243, 244, 

 320, 321, 336, 414-416. 



Mohawk River, 195, 228, 303, 305, 314, 319, 

 352, 353, 587; ice-dam in, 398, 536, 539. 



Mohawk Valley, 542. 



Mohegan Rock, Conn., 238. 



Mono county, Cal., 13, 222. 



Monongahela River, 300, 308, 370, 372, 377, 

 378, 384, 604; ice-dam in, 391-393. 



Monroe county, Pa., terminal moraine in, 

 146, 148; depth of ice in, 195, 198; buried 

 channels in, 311. 



Montana, former glaciers in, 13, 176;glacial 

 boundary in, 133, 175; bowlders in, 243. 



Mont Blanc, 104, 109. 



Montgomery county, Ohio, organic re- 

 mains in glacial deposits in, 592, 593; 

 depth of till in, 592. 



Montreal, marine beds overlying glacial 

 drift, 504; depression at, 542. 



Moose, 675. 



Moraines, formation of, described, 9. 



Moraines of retrocession, 57, 207, 222, 223. 



Moreau River, 174, 175. 



Morgan county, Ind., 601. 



Morgantown, Ind., 601. 



Morgantown, W. Va., 370, 377, 378, 603. 



Morris county, N. J., 241. 



Morrison county, Minn., 653, 655. 



Morse Glacier, 72. 



Moulins defined, 9; on Mount Tacoma, 22; 

 on Muir Glacier, 48. 



Mountain-building, probably correlated 

 with epochs of glaciation, 499, 502, 507, 

 509 et seq. 



Mount Baker, 23, 180, 192. 



Mount Crillon, 42, 43, 68. 



Mount Dana, 15. 



Mount Desert, Me., 137, 194, 195. 



Mount Fairweather, 35, 42, 43, 68. 



Mount Hood, 19, 192. 



Mount Jefferson, 19. 



Mount Katahdin, Me., 195, 247, 348, 441. 



Mount Kelertingouit, Greenland, 85, 86. 



Mount McKinley, 36. 



Mount Lyell, 15, 269, 273. 



Mount Rainier. See Mount Tacoma. 



Mount Shasta, 15 et seq., 192. 



Mount St. Elias, 30, 34-36, 42. 



Mount Tacoma, 21, 136, 180, 192, 193. 



Mount Washington, 194, 246, 439-441. 



Mount Wrangel, 36. 



Mower county, Minn., 605. 



Mud River, W. Va., 381. 



Muir Glacier, cross-section of, 4, 39; kames 

 forming in, 11, 66, 342; discovery of, 39; 

 chapter on, 40-74; accessible to tourists, 

 40; difficulties of measurement, 41, 52; 

 surrounding mountains, 41-43; vegeta- 

 tion in the vicinity of, 41, 57; view of, 42; 

 former extension of, 43, 59, 189; relation 

 to Glacier Bay, 45; width of, 45; terminal 

 moraine of, 45, 57; transported bowlders 



