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Mountain. Those which were tributary to the Tyndall Creek 

 trough followed that pathway to the Kern Canon ; but the country 

 to the west of that, which slopes down from Table Mountain and 

 Milestone Mountain, has been so broadly glaciated that there is a 

 strong suggestion of the slope having been occupied by a pied- 

 mont glacier due to the coalescence of numerous streams of 

 ice from the cirques above. All this ice became confluent in 

 Kern Canon at points north of Milestone Creek. This confluence 

 is marked on both sides of the canon, but particularly on the 

 east side by the development of lateral moraines several miles in 

 extent and rising to an altitude of probably 1500 feet above the 

 bottom of Kern Canon. These moraines on the east side extend 

 up Tyndall Creek and down the main canon nearly as far as the 

 mouth of the East Fork. They afford a practicable descent from 

 Chagoopa Plateau into the canon, the walls of which are else- 

 where unscalable. The basin of the Kern-Kaweah River is 

 another expansive glacial track, and was occupied by the con- 

 vergence of ice streams from many high cirques extending from 

 Milestone Bowl to the north side of Kaweah Peak. The outlet 

 of this ice to the Kern was through a deep U-shaped hanging 

 valley several hundred feet above the floor of Kern Canon. On 

 the north side of this trough, but quite within it, is a bold dome 

 of granite, the sculpture of which indicates clearly that it lay in the 

 path of the ice , and that the ice passed over it and on both sides of it. 



The only remaining glacial tributary of the trunk glacier of 

 the Kern is that which came down the Big Arroyo. This ice 

 stream started in the reentrant between the Kaweah Ridge and 

 the Great Western Divide, and, flowing down the Big Arroyo, 

 was augmented by numerous other glaciers emerging from the 

 great array of cirques which look down upon Chagoopa Plateau 

 from the west. Glaciers also descended Rattlesnake and Laurel 

 Creeks, but they probably did not reach the Kern. A glacier 

 also extended down Coyote Creek from the west, but it reached 

 only a couple of miles from the divide and formed a heavy 

 moraine behind which there is now an expanse of meadow land 

 with a brook meandering through it. 



Olaciation of Outer Border of Basin. — Both to the west and 

 to the east of the Upper Kern Basin the glaciation of the High 



