KADIAK ISLAND 
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FIG. 87. HILL BEHIND KADIAK VILLAGE. 
Showing glacial sculpture and subsequent erosion by a stream. 
While these observations cover but a small part of the 
island, they are so distributed as to throw considerable 
light on Pleis¬ 
tocene con¬ 
ditions. The 
glaciation of 
the eastern, 
northern and 
western ex¬ 
tremities of 
the island, and 
the notable 
height to 
which ice 
sculpture extends at the east and north, indicate a practi¬ 
cally continuous glacial envelope, from which scattered 
peaks pro¬ 
jected as 
nunataks. 
Afognak and 
the other im¬ 
portant is¬ 
lands of the 
group were 
probably in¬ 
cluded in the 
same envel¬ 
ope, and the 
ice extended 
in many di¬ 
rections be¬ 
yond the po¬ 
sition of the 
FIG. 88. HANGING VALLEY NEAR KADIAK VILLAGE. 
The lower ground was shaped by a large glacier moving from left 
to right. 
present coast line. The apparent absence of glaciation 
from salient features of the northwestern coast indicates 
