The Drift
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "If we examine a field in Maine or New York, or norther Indiana, or Iowa, we shall find the stones, the soils, and the subsoil's often consisting of different material from the underlying bedrock. Pebbles and cobblestones, small boulders and great ones, even to hundreds of tons in weight, are scattered over the surface or buried in the finer waste. Bedrock like these loose stones may be found 10, 20, 50, or even some hundreds of miles away. these are "erratic" or strayed boulders. once moved by a glacier. as the Malaspina Glacier is now carrying stones from Mt. St. Elias to the sea-border."
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 012 010
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The Drift
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "If we examine a field in Maine or New York, or norther Indiana, or Iowa, we shall find the stones, the soils, and the subsoil's often consisting of different material from the underlying bedrock. Pebbles and cobblestones, small boulders and great ones, even to hundreds of tons in weight, are scattered over the surface or buried in the finer waste. Bedrock like these loose stones may be found 10, 20, 50, or even some hundreds of miles away. these are "erratic" or strayed boulders. once moved by a glacier. as the Malaspina Glacier is now carrying stones from Mt. St. Elias to the sea-border."
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 012 010
You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here.
Want more? You can find more digital resources online.
We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version may apply. To read more about what “no known restrictions” means, please visit the Special Collections & Archives website, or contact staff at the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center for details.