Glacial Till, page 4

Mar 19 03:54 UTC 2006

Jdeigert is taking an introductory geology course at the local community
college and had to write up a 4-page report on yesterday's field trip, in
which they viewed glacial terrain.  Probably double-spaced would have done
it, but he ran out of things to say in the middle of page 3 (single-spaced)
so we extended the conclusion onto page 4 as follows:

13,000 years ago 
the glaciers ruled this land.
They laid down clay and silt and rocks 
and also lots of sand.

The sand formed eskers, it formed kames,
drumlins, and end moraines,
recessional and terminal,
and sandy outwash plains
that dry fast when it rains.

The drained moraines are mainly in the plains.

Ice chunks fell off and melted
and left holes below the till,
and water filled them up and there
are kettle lakes there still.

The lowland silt is good for farms,
the sandy plains are not
unless organic matter builds
up and begins to rot.

The glaciers gone, the river flows,
though now it has grown small,
and where the apples used to bloom,
students view a rock wall.

In Intro to Geology 
they contemplate past ages,
and add to trip reports a rhyme
to fill a full four pages. 


[Can you guess which lines Jim wrote himself?