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Excerpt from Notes on the Quaternary Geology of the Mattawa and Ottawa Valleys Introductory. In the autumn of 1893 the writer made two excursions to North Bay on lake Nipissing, first in August with Dr. F. S. Pearce, of Philadelphia, and again in' Septem ber alone. Two or three days were spent each time searching for old shore lines on the hills or in studying the lower beaches and their relation to the old out-let of the great lakes. The greater part of the time, however, was spent in searching for high beaches. And particularly in an effort to identify the highest. The observations made then were after wards published ih detail.* In 1895 the month of October was spent chiefly in the vi cinity of North Bay and in the Ottawa valley above the city of Ottawa. It is the particular object of the present paper to present the results of this later work. The observations are somewhat scattered, but when taken in connection with what has been done by others and with the writer's work of two years before it is believed that they will not be without value. The paper is presented in two parts, the first relating to the higher, older shore lines, and the second relating to the lower, newer lines, in part lacustrine and associated with the aban doued outlet and in part to those of the contemporary marine waters in the Ottawa valley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Moraine Systems of Southwestern Ontario At its maximum extent the front of the Wisconsin ice sheet reached nearly to Cincinnati, Ohio, and covered completely the whole province of Ontario. It is now well lnown that the movement of the ice sheet from its centres of growth in the North was due to the force of gravity acting upon a mass of ice so vast and piled up to so great a height that it had at all times a continuous surface slope descending from its centre to its edge. This surface slope was the fundamental condition of its movement. Its motion was a slow. Semi-viscous. flowing move ment in which the ice, like water. W:s always seeking a lower level. To a certain evtent, but imperfectly, it obeyed the laws of hydrostatics. The fact that °t filled the Great Lake basins, completely overflowed the highlands between them and even overtopped mountain peaks. Like the Catskills, the Adirondacks and the White mountains. Shows the enormous thickness which the ice must have had in Labrador in order to have had a descending surface slope that would pass over the tops of such moun tains as Mt. Washington in the White mountains and Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks. On the basis of such facts it has been estimated that at its maximum the ice at its centre in Labrador must have been at least r3,ooo feet thick and may have attained a thickness of or feet. Fragments of Potsdam sandstone were carried from low levels near the north end of Lake Champlain to the tops of the Adirondacks. The possibility of the performance of such feats by the ice used to be strenuously denied. But knowing the nature of glacial movement and the enormous thickness of the ice, it is easy to see that detritus could be carried up hill to or over the top of env object - any hill or mountain over which the ice mass was moving. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1860, the only child of Robert Stewart and Fanny (Wright) Taylor. His father was a prominent lawyer, a charter member of the American Bar Association. The family ancestry is traced back through the Rev. Isaac N. Taylor, Frank's grandfather, to Edward Taylor, who came from London to America in 1692.
After nearly four years at Harvard, where he studied geology and astronomy, Taylor left college in 1886 for reasons of health.
His search for greater vigor took him to health resorts and, by 1890, on extensive outdoor travel in the Great Lakes region. There he found what became his chief life work in unraveling the complicated history of the abandoned high-lying shorelines and former outlets of these lakes. By 1900 he had published some twenty papers on this subject. Though his investigations so far had been conducted entirely at his own expense, Taylor in 1900 became a special assistant (later a field assistant) in the United States Geological Survey, a connection he maintained until 1916.
For several seasons he did detailed mapping of moraines and shorelines in Michigan and neighboring parts of Indiana and Ohio; later glacial investigations took him into Canada, western Massachusetts, and New York State, during 1920-23 under a research grant from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His summers were normally spent in field work, his winters in reports and other writing.
Taylor's research was almost wholly devoted to two major geological themes. Of his ninety published titles, nearly seventy deal with the glacial history of the Great Lakes and environs, ranging from his earliest paper (1892) to his last (1933). Perhaps no other geologist contributed so much significant field data or shared so largely in developing theory on this theme during these forty-two years. His never-slackened interest kept him active in field work until three score and ten called a physical halt. Taylor's thought led him into only one marked error of theory, and this he corrected early. Revising and elaborating detailed interpretations, he built into the general theme an enduring mosaic of glacial dammings and outlet changes on an underlying pattern of shifting glacial lobes in each of the Great Lake basins. The magnum opus of these studies is Monograph 53, United States Geological Survey, The Pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the History of the Great Lakes (1915), with Frank Leverett as co-author. The glacial lake history therein was largely Taylor's contribution.
The second theme of Taylor's research appears under thirteen titles beginning in 1921. It could be called "armchair geology, " for it was developed wholly from data published by other men. It was a reorganization of the findings and thought of geologists from many countries into a scheme of continental drift and mountain-making under tidal forces. Taylor is among half a dozen vigorous proponents of the concept that present continents are separated masses that have spread out from the break-up of one or two massive protocontinents. He received criticism of his theory with equanimity. Perhaps the most nearly distressing item was a fairly widespread idea that his "drifting" or "sliding" continents were essentially the same as Alfred Wegener's "floating" continents. He wrote: "I am quite free to admit that my efforts to point out the cause of continental crustal movements are largely speculative. .. But. I think I have followed much more sound and careful scientific methods than [Wegener and others]. "
A minor theme of Taylor's thought was cosmogony. On this he published but one title, The Planetary System, a Study of its Structure and Growth (1903). The publication of the book was forced on him by his well-to-do father, who wanted to record what he considered his son's great ideas. Taylor himself later said of the book: "It has pretty nearly everything in it, but is an awful mess. " Perhaps no subject in scientific literature has had, and continues to have, more divergent hypotheses, with perhaps brief, limited acceptance but eventual eclipse, than that with which this book deals.
Taylor's death was caused by a coronary thrombosis. He died and was buried in the city of his birth, Fort Wayne.
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Taylor was of medium stature. He wore a goatee and mustache, and his expressive countenance was topped by a splendid mane of iron-gray hair.
He married Minnetta Amelia Ketchum on April 24, 1899, at Mackinac Island, Mich.
