HERBERT C. MILLS 21 ST CONFERENCE ON GEOLOGY OF LONG ISLAND AND METROPOLITAN NEW YORK ICE FLOW IN THE VICINITY OF THE MANETTO HILLS, DIX HILLS AND HALF.

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HERBERT C. MILLS 21 ST CONFERENCE ON GEOLOGY OF LONG ISLAND AND METROPOLITAN NEW YORK ICE FLOW IN THE VICINITY OF THE MANETTO HILLS, DIX HILLS AND HALF HOLLOW HILLS IN CENTRAL LONG ISLAND, NY

Digital elevation map of Nassau & western Suffolk Counties, NY

Topographic relief map of central Long Island

Geologic map – Fuller 1914

Overview of 110 Sand & Gravel mine, Melville

Cretaceous sand in 110 Sand & Gravel mine

Gray Cretaceous gravel in 110 Sand & Gravel mine

Glacial till, High Hold Road, Manetto Hills

Loose till & outwash, West Farm Road, Half Hollow Hills

Vatnajokull glacier, Iceland (NASA- Landstat, 1973)

Piedmont glacier on Iceland’s south coast

Piedmont glaciers, Taylor Dry Valley, Antarctica

Outlet glaciers in Greenland

“Slime” model of glacier flow (1)

“Slime” model of glacier flow (2)

“Slime” model of glacier flow (3)

“Slime” model of glacier flow (4)

“Slime” model of glacier flow (5)

“Slime” model of glacier flow (6)

“Slime” model of glacier flow (7)

“Slime” model of glacier flow (8)