Some Pro-Glacial Lake Shorelines 
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The highway from Strongs Ridge to Bellevue follows the Lower 
Maumee beach. In the vicinity of Bellevue the shoreline bears 
southward; the Bellevue cemetery occupies a locally broadened 
portion of the beach. Its location immediately west of this is 
somewhat problematical, owing to street grading and building 
operations. Within half a mile west of the village the Lower 
Maumee shoreline bears northward, and becomes much broader 
than elsewhere on the quadrangle. The last position of this lake 
stage, in this vicinity, may be quite definitely mapped; earlier 
positions of the beach ridge farther south are indicated by gravel 
pits operated at present by the Wheeling and Lake Erie Rail- 
road, about a mile west of the Bellevue Cement Company’s 
plant. At this gravel pit the upper 4 to 5 feet consists of wind- 
drifted sand, beneath which is found some very coarse wave- 
made gravel. In an area nearly a mile square here the surface 
material is all wind-deposited. 
Proceeding west, the beach of the Lower Maumee level parallels 
a highway that turns diagonally south and west from the road 
followed by the Lake Shore Electric. From this point to the 
southwest corner of the sheet the ridges of the two Maumee 
levels are approximately parallel. At a point about a half mile 
northeast of Colby they have been united by wind deposits. For 
nearly two miles west of thi^^ the lower beach lies a little farther 
away from the higher ridge, but near the edge of the sheet the 
two are less than 40 rods apart. In this corner of the quadrangle 
I have mapped what appears to be a low off-shore barrier, the 
material of which is prevailingly fine; locally its surface is some- 
what irregular because of dune deposits; the barrier characteristic 
is the continuity of the broad swell of sand. 
From the point where the Lower Maumee ridge turns to the 
southwest from the Lake Shore Electric, there developed to the 
west one of the most interesting spit formations I have noted 
anywhere in these studies. From its point of origin in section 22 
of York Tp. this spit extends westward over two and one-half 
miles. The map (Fig. 2) attempts to show as much detail as is 
possible after eliminating the work of wind deposits; I have 
allowed only gravel and ridged sand to define definitely this struc- 
ture. It is observed at once by those who are familiar with the 
shoreline of Lake Erie, that a striking similarity exists between 
this spit (Fig. 2) and the Cedar Point spit (Fig. 3) . Both have the 
