Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 62 | Trace Ancient Glaciers

TRACE ANCIENT GLACIERS Geologists T Tell II of or lee Ice A ARC Age e In Michigan and Indiana Even to one trained In geology there Is considerable novelty In the Idea lIea se set forth orth b by scientific men that during the great Ice lee ago the northern half haIr of ot th the tho North orth American continent was covered cov cov- erl ered 1 with vast sheets of Ice hundreds or thousands of at feet In thickness ness One Ono can scarcely blame blamo the countr country man to whom a geologist was explaining that tha the range of or hills adjacent to his farm farn arm was Avas the terminal moraine of ot one ona o of at those ancient glaciers when hen he said Bald Yes Ics they tell me those hills were made h by ice Ice but o I lived Jived here nl nigh h on to seventy five years ears and I haven't ha 8 seen ln any Ice up there Tho stud study and mapping of the moraines moraines mo mo- raines and other deposits of ot tho the an ancient ancient an- an clent glaciers has for a n long lonc time been one of ot the lines o of scientific activity carried on b by the t United States geological geological geo geo- logical survey Besides being matters mattei O of geologic and geographic Interest Interest tho the various glacial and dc deposits de- de posits aro are of or great Importance particularly to the agriculturists in the northern part of the United States The pulverized and mixed rock materials spread as glacial drift o over tho the uneven une surfaces of or the tho older r rock ck formations In this part of ot tho the county country 1 afford the sac deep rich and enduring soils solis whoso those yield In form products product constitutes so 80 great t a part of ot tho the nations nation's wealth The vast ast quantities of or clay available a for tor the manufacture of ot brick and drain tHe tile and the widely distributed deposits of sand and gravel ol available available- for tor rood 1 material ma ma- terl 1 and concrete and other work all the results o of the great Krea glaciers glaciers- are resources reSOUrcE'S of at no small value In the swamps of at the glaciated area lie Me stored great quantities of ot pent peat awaiting the time when conditions ma may r require elu l Ire their use as ns fuel tuel or fertilizer