North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America

One hundred field guides, with area maps, to locations in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
The Lovers Leap section and related observations of multiple and cross-cutting glacial drifts in the Great Bend area, Indiana
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Published:January 01, 1987
Abstarct
The glacial geology of the area north of the Great Bend of the Wabash River in west-central Indiana (Fig.1), 1) illustrates important early developed principles regarding multiple continentalglaciation, the movements of adjoining ice lobes, and the interrelated deposits. Perhaps the first documentation of a lithologically definable till stratigraphy that is basic to interpretation of glacial movement and sedimentation throughout much of the Midwest was made in the Great Bend area. A half century after the first documentation was made, the till stratigraphy here would emerge as the regionally mappable sequence. Further, it would illustrate cross-cutting relationships of morainal ridges...