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The Marseilles moraine is a terminal moraine that encircles the southern tip of Lake Michigan in North America. It begins near Elgin, Illinois , and extends south and west of Chicago metropolitan area , turning eastward 30 miles (48 km) to 40 miles (64 km) south of the lake in Kankakee and Iroqouis counties, entering Indiana .
Located to the Southwest the Bloomington Moraine is a large, very flat plain; this area is in fact the lakebed of Glacial Lake Pontiac, which drained about 17,000 years ago. [ 12 ] Glacial Park, in McHenry County , preserves a wealth of glacial landscape features, including a delta kame named Camelback Kame, as well as wetlands in three glacial ...
6,256.7 hectares (15,461 acres) Upper Peoria Lake is a section of the Illinois River primarily between Peoria County and Woodford County, Illinois, United States. The lake runs from South Rome to Peoria Heights, with Spring Bay and the Detweiller Marina area of Peoria near the middle. Just north of Peoria Heights, it empties through a narrow ...
Kankakee Torrent. Coordinates: 41°25′12″N 88°12′39″W. Sandstone cliff at Starved Rock State Park, carved by the force of the Kankakee Torrent some 19,000 years ago. The Kankakee Torrent was a catastrophic flood that occurred about 19,000 calibrated years ago [1] in the Midwestern United States. It resulted from a breach of moraines ...
Lake Kankakee formed 14,000 years before present (YBP) in the valley of the Kankakee River. It developed from the outwash of the Michigan Lobe, Saginaw Lobe, and the Huron-Erie Lobe of the Wisconsin glaciation. These three ice sheets formed a basin across Northwestern Indiana. It was a time when the glaciers were receding, but had stopped for a ...
The Packerton Moraine in which Shoe Lake is located belongs to the moraines of the Saginaw lobe of late Wisconsin Substage. It has its origin in northern Carroll County, extends northeastward through Cass, Miami, Fulton, Kosciusko, and Whitley Counties, and terminates about the middle of Noble County. Here it joins with the Morainic system of ...
The Bloomington Ridged Plain covers only the most southern part of Northwest Indiana in the valley of the Iroquois River in southern Newton and Jasper counties. This area consists of low and rolling hills, i.e., moraines like the Iroquois Moraine with less than 300 ft changes in elevation. The soils are loamy till, lake clay and silt.
Maybe it’s just bound to happen in a college town. Regardless of the reason, many people in Bloomington refer to the city as “B-Town,” “Bloom,” or “Bloomy.”“B-Town” is the older ...