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Glacial Conglomerates of the Appalachian Plateau, New York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James S. Aber
James S. Aber*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Science, Division of Science and Mathematics, Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska 69337 USA
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Abstract

Three generations of Quaternary conglomerates formed by cementation of glacial gravels are found in drift of the Appalachian Plateau in south-central New York. Postglacial conglomerates have been locally cemented by carbonate minerals within limestone-bearing (erratic-rich) gravels of Late Wisconsin (Woodfordian) age. Conglomerates cemented during the Mid-Wisconsin interstade occur as numerous fragments in erratic-rich Late Wisconsin drift, and as a single in situ mound near Syracuse. Mid-Wisconsin conglomerate contains fragments of a still older conglomerate believed to be of possible pre-Wisconsin (Sangamon) age. Both postglacial and Mid-Wisconsin conglomerates were cemented in the same manner, as a result of diagenetic processes in the vadose zones of limestone-bearing terraces. Information gleaned from conglomerate fragments indicates that Early Wisconsin drift was similar to Late Wisconsin drift; the Early and Late Wisconsin glaciations and deglaciations of the plateau probably proceeded in much the same fashion.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , March 1979 , pp. 185 - 196
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University of Washington

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