University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository New England Intercollegiate Geological NEIGC Trips Excursion Collection 1-1-1986 Features associated with the deglaciation of the upper Saco and Ossipee River basins, northern York and southern Oxford Counties, Maine Holland, W.R. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/neigc_trips Recommended Citation Holland, W.R., "Features associated with the deglaciation of the upper Saco and Ossipee River basins, northern York and southern Oxford Counties, Maine" (1986). NEIGC Trips. 392. https://scholars.unh.edu/neigc_trips/392 This Text is brought to you for free and open access by the New England Intercollegiate Geological Excursion Collection at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in NEIGC Trips by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Trip B-l FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEGLACIATION OF THE UPPER SACO AND OSSIPEE RIVER BASINS, NORTHERN YORK AND SOUTHERN OXFORD COUNTIES, MAINE by William R. Holland Robert G. Gerber, Inc. 17 West Street Freeport, Maine 1.0 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this field trip is to examine some of the principal fea tures associated with the last deglaciation in an area centered on the Saco and Ossipee River valleys in Oxford and York Counties, Maine. (See Figure 1). The area is located in the New England Upland physiographic province (Fenneman, p. 358) southeast of the White Mountains, and constitutes a physiographic boundary between the seaboard lowland and the mountains. It also marks the limit of Late Wisconsin glaciomarine sediments in the Saco basin (See Figure 2).