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Appendix I: Glaciation in Great New York

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EVIDENCES OF GLACIATION                211
" Though not of glacial origin, the Pensauken formation was probably contemporaneous with one of the early glacial for­mations."
There is a small area of land on Staten Island directly in front of the moraine which seems devoid of this drift de­posit. It forms a bare patch, as it were, and the moraine recedes behind it in a re-entering curve (Fig. 51). It lies around and behind New Dorp. Professor Salisbury, corn-
menting on this, says: " The study of the position of the moraine in its relation to topography shows that this bend in the moraine occurs southeast of the highest point on the island. These relations are in no way accidental. The effect of the high land was to retard the movement of the ice, and the highest land retarded it most. In the lee of the highest point, therefore, the advance was least. It is significant that the ice surmounted the summit and started down its southern slope,
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