Scenes in Ohio During the Last Ice Age

In a speech delivered at the 68th Annual Meeting at Capital University at Bexley OH on Apr 17, 1959, Goldthwait details the climate scenes in Ohio during the last Ice Age. During the last decade more than a dozen geologists and some pedologists and botanists have tackled the surficial deposits of western Ohio for a reinterpretation of Ice Age history. The most complete record in surficial deposits is that of the very last Ice Age, the classical Wisconsin Stage. This application of glaciology to Wisconsin Stage history follows the principle of uniformitarianism. It is held that whatever took place in Ohio 9,000 to 30,000 years ago is taking place somewhere in the world today.