thumb The '''Defiance Moraine''' was deposited about 14,800<ref name=Case>{{cite web|url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/g/geology-natural-resources |title=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:GEOLOGY & NATURAL RESOURCES|publisher=Case Western Reserve University}}</ref> years ago during the late Wisconsin glaciation and spans the northern portion of the state of Ohio from Defiance, Ohio in the west to near Pymatuning Reservoir in the east.<ref name=Bier>{{cite web|first=James A.|last=Bier|url=http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/portals/geosurvey/PDFs/Misc_State_Maps%26Pubs/Landforms_withCitation.pdf|title=Landforms of Ohio|publisher=Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113061500/http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/portals/geosurvey/PDFs/Misc_State_Maps%26Pubs/Landforms_withCitation.pdf|archive-date=January 13, 2017|url-status=dead|date=1967|access-date=December 5, 2018}}</ref>
Near Defiance, Ohio inundation by Lake Maumee significantly reduced the relief of the moraine.<ref>{{cite web|first=C. Scott|last=Brockman|url=https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-04/documents/05_oh_rec4.pdf |title=Physiographic Regions of Ohio|publisher=Ohio Department of Natural Resources}}</ref>
The moraine is a noteworthy landform in several counties across the state in addition to Defiance County, including Putnam, Hancock, Seneca, Lorain, Medina, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Trumbull and Ashtabula.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ohiodnr.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/e1c431e3-3ff4-4eb1-812f-7d0802127b81/Glacial+Map+of+Ohio.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=ne.WIDF |title=Glacial Map of Ohio|publisher=Ohio Department of Natural Resources|year=2005}}</ref>
The moraine passes just south of the village of Alvada, Ohio in Seneca, County. The crest of the moraine is 850 to 860 feet above sea level and varies from two to five miles in width with an asymmetrical form, rising abruptly from the till plain on the south and descending gradually to the north so the boundary is indistinct.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/3237/1/V42N03_103.pdf|title=THE PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY OF THE FOSTORIA QUADRANGLE|author=SHAFFER,PAUL R. }}</ref>
The Defiance Moraine is the source of the Black River between New London and Lodi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/2261/1/V25N02_051.pdf|title=History of Five River Valleys|author=NEWBERRY, J. S.}}</ref>
The moraine nearly encircles Geauga County on the west, north, and east flanks in a belt that is 1 to 2 miles wide with 10 to 30 feet of relief.<ref name=Totten>{{cite web|url=https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/80250|title=GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF GEAUGA COUNTY, OHIO|publisher=Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey|author=Totten,Stanley M.}}</ref><ref name=ODNR>{{cite web|url=https://gis.ohiodnr.gov/website/dgs/geologyviewer/#|title=Ohio Geology Interactive Map|author=ODNR}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}}
Category:Geological history of the Great Lakes Category:Moraines of Ohio