Minford Silts of Southern Ohio

摘要: Introduction Throughout southern Ohio and in adjacent parts of West Virginia Kentucky, the preglacial drainage lines are all much choked with highly laminated silt, fine sand and, very locally, a coarse rubble. In Ohio, south glacial drift, such old valleys clearly defined by certain topographic features also character deposits in, them. Even far north terminal moraine, where they occasionally exposed for examination, these stream beds exhibit many places along walls large masses characteristic bodies being remnants original filling that escaped destruction action. general, silts best developed Kanawha or Teays system, evidently master region, headwaters which were to southward. Such material is found not only main waterways this .