Kenton County Glaciation

My examination of Kenton county has been too brief to be very satisfactory, but what I have seen may serve as a guide to others. Three miles southwest of Covington the hills are covered with loam from 15 to 40 feet deep, at an elevation of 400 feet (B) above the river. There are occasional small quartz pebbles in this loam; but I saw no sure signs of the actual presence of ice. In my notes I have said: "This seems like the bottom of a temporary lake when the ice dammed the river below." On going across from the pike a little south of this, so as to strike the Licking River, two miles south of Covington flats, no glacial marks were observed. At Erlanger, however, the first station south of Ludlow, on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, a railroad cut shows clay to a depth of six feet or more containing pebbles of quartzite, limestone, and occasionally granite, near the bottom. All, however, were small, none of them more than three inches in diameter. The elevation is about five hundred feet above the river.

from George Frederick Wright's The Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, 1884. You can read it all at Google Books.