Annual report . 03 3 m C ^ CO C o .5 ^ 11 I .1 s. P o ?§1 §1 GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF THE SCHENECTADY QUADRANGLE 39 REVIEW AND SUMMARY The Pleistocene history of the area of the Schenectady quadranglebegins with that condition of glaciation which produced the striaenow observable on the surface of the bedrock. We start, then, withthe conception of a sheet of ice overspreading the country andmoving in a general direction of some 30 degrees west of number of localities where striae were observed is insufficientto determine differential movements due to the adjustment of theflow of the ice to
Annual report . 03 3 m C ^ CO C o .5 ^ 11 I .1 s. P o ?§1 §1 GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF THE SCHENECTADY QUADRANGLE 39 REVIEW AND SUMMARY The Pleistocene history of the area of the Schenectady quadranglebegins with that condition of glaciation which produced the striaenow observable on the surface of the bedrock. We start, then, withthe conception of a sheet of ice overspreading the country andmoving in a general direction of some 30 degrees west of number of localities where striae were observed is insufficientto determine differential movements due to the adjustment of theflow of the ice to local irregularities of surface. A comparison withsimilar observations for adjoining territory would also be necessaryto determine whether the direction of movement was influenced bythe regional topography which, as suggested by Chamberlain,1caused a westward movement of ice in the eastern portion of theMohawk valley. It may be noted, however, that at the western edgeof the sheet striae showing a direction of 57 degrees west of southwere ob
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