Along the valley of the Housatonic, glacial material is chiefly in the form of gravel terraces; they extend from Gaylordsville to New Milford, in some places on one side only, in others on both sides of the river. Part of these gravel benches are kame terraces, as shown by their rolling tops and the ravine which separates the terrace from the hillside; others may have been made by the river cutting through the mantle of drift which was laid down in the period of land depression at the time of glacial retreat,[15] or they may be a combination of the two forms. In many places by swinging in its flood plain, the river has cut into the terraces and left steep bluffs of gravel. The valley of Womenshenuck Brook above Merwinsville contains heavy deposits of stratified drift, indicating that this broad valley which extends from Kent on the Housatonic to Merwinsville was an important channel for the water which flowed from the melting ice.
[14] Hobbs, W. H., op. cit.
[15] Rice, W. N. and Gregory, H. E., Manual of the Geology of Connecticut: Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey Bull. 6, pp. 34-35, 1906.