Glenville Hills Kames [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Glenville Hills Kames
The Glenville Hills Kames is a 345 hectare provincially significant "Earth Science" Area of Natural and Scientific Interest in Ontario, Canada.
Located in the northeastern part of the township of King, it contains most of the eastern portion of Jokers Hill, site of the Koffler Scientific Reserve which conducts ecological research in the area. It consists of Late Wisconsinan deposits of Newmarket Till, from the Port Bruce Stadial, and Kettleby Till, from the Port Huron Stadial. These are overlain by kames and kame
the Palgrave Moraine". It is a 588 hectare region at which the two moraines merge. The Glenville Hills Kames are kames in the northeast portion of the township, southwest of central Newmarket, that mark "the southernmost advance of Lake Simcoe sublobe during [the] Port Bruce Stadial". The "Kettleby and Newmarket Tills" is a small region of sediments deposited by the Lake Simcoe ice lobe, located west of the Glenville Hills Kames.
Wetlands.
King has an abundance of large, provincially significant wetland complexes