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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01CB1CE6.AE881200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Last week I had a chance to canoe the upper Annapolis River, from = Aylesford to Kingston. Again, I was impressed by the depth and extent of = the sandy deposits through which the river meanders in much of this = stretch. Almost the entire "sandhills" area is covered by a thin veneer = of soil and by vegetation. The sand is visible only where its cover has = been disturbed on roads or in sandpits. It is best viewed from the = river, where in places there are 20 - 30 foot vertical sandy banks.=20 What exactly created this massive sand deposit? The continental = glacier? A post-glacial lake? The ocean? Do these 'sandhills' have a = formal name? Any good references on them?=20 Dusan Soudek ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01CB1CE6.AE881200 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.18928"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Last week I had a chance to canoe = the upper=20 Annapolis River, from Aylesford to Kingston. Again, I was impressed by = the depth=20 and extent of the sandy deposits through which the river meanders in = much of=20 this stretch. Almost the entire "sandhills" area is covered by a thin = veneer of=20 soil and by vegetation. The sand is visible only where its cover has = been=20 disturbed on roads or in sandpits. It is best viewed from the river, = where in=20 places there are 20 - 30 foot vertical sandy banks. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> What exactly created this massive = sand=20 deposit? The continental glacier? A post-glacial lake? The ocean? Do = these=20 'sandhills' have a formal name? Any good references on them? = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Dusan Soudek</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01CB1CE6.AE881200--
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