Large numbers of shallow borings, in the peripheral areas of the great Quaternary continental ice sheets, mainly for groundwater search or made in the course of engineering foundation studies, have disclosed the presence of deep valleys cut in the bedrock terrain and today filled largely with alluvium, glacial outwash gravels and sands or with till (Fig. 1). These are known as buried valleys or channels , a number of classes of which may be identified—partly directly due to ice action, and partly inherited valleys, later modified.
Buried Teays Valley and its tributary, Metea Valley, at and near Peru in north-central Indiana, defined by subsurface exploration (Thornbury and Deane 1955).
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Fairbridge, R.W. (1968). Buried valleys and channels . In: Geomorphology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31060-6_41
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