Schneider, Allan F.2010-02-012010-02-011961https://hdl.handle.net/11299/57044One map insert as pdf, scale 1:62,500.The systematic investigation of the glacial history of Minnesota goes back sixty to eighty years, to the days of N. H. Winchell and Warren Upham, who were as competent in the interpretation of the terrain and surface deposits as they were in working out the relations of the bedrock. A resurvey of the glacial history of the State was completed just before World War I by Frank Leverett of the U.S. Geological Survey, whose comprehensive report, however, was not published until 1932. Leverett had already mapped most of the other states in the Great Lakes region, so the picture for Minnesota fitted consistently with the others. Each successive generation of geologists, however, has different approaches, based on new techniques and on increased understanding of geological processes. After World War II the Minnesota Geological Survey initiated a program of re-examination of the glacial deposits of the State, which has an exceptionally fine record of the complex interactions of ice lobes that invaded the area from different directions. The recent Bulletin 39 on the Geology of Cook County incorporated a modern study of the glacial history of the northeastern corner of the State by Robert P. Sharp, and the present Bulletin by Allan F. Schneider describes a detailed study of an area in central Minnesota northwest of Little Falls. To this problem Dr. Schneider brought the necessary energy and enthusiasm to do the detailed field work required to unravel the complex relationships. In work on a problem of this sort a broad background on the region as a whole is necessary. This was furnished by H. E. Wright, Jr., who has supervised the work on the Pleistocene geology of Minnesota since 1947. Although the field work was supported by the Minnesota Geological Survey, it should be emphasized that untold hours were spent by Dr. Schneider on laboratory work and on drafting and writing the report while he was otherwise employed. The Minnesota Geological Survey is indebted to both Dr. Schneider and Professor Wright for their devoted service.engeologyPleistoceneMinnesota Geological Surveycentral Minnesotaglacical geologyMap