. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Geology. 202 H. L. FAIRCHILD POST-GLACIAL UPLIFT OF X. E. AMERICA of the southwestern border permitted some rise in the district previous to the waning of the Labradorian sheet. It is therefore probable that the differential uplift shown in the glacial lake beaches of the Michigan and Erie basins is not a record of the earliest nor the total uplift in the west- ern area. The wavelike uplift of the earth's surface following the re-. FiGUKE 1.—Post-Glacial continental Uplift The lines indicate, in feet, the amount of land uplift following the remo
. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Geology. 202 H. L. FAIRCHILD POST-GLACIAL UPLIFT OF X. E. AMERICA of the southwestern border permitted some rise in the district previous to the waning of the Labradorian sheet. It is therefore probable that the differential uplift shown in the glacial lake beaches of the Michigan and Erie basins is not a record of the earliest nor the total uplift in the west- ern area. The wavelike uplift of the earth's surface following the re-. FiGUKE 1.—Post-Glacial continental Uplift The lines indicate, in feet, the amount of land uplift following the removal of tbe Labradorian ice-cap moval of the ice-l)urden probably raised the territory southwest of the Michigan and Erie basins, at least in greater amount, before the lake inscriptions were completed. The near horizontality of the southwestern stretches of the ancient beaches is not proof of lack of hiiid uplift, l)ecausc some reasonable rela- tion of lake history to rise of land might leave the shorelines quite Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Geological Society of America. [New York : The Society]
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