V.—Traces of a Great Post-Glacial Flood
What is the burden of all these facts? Why, assuredly that the shells found in our higher marine drifts, or at least in nearly all of them, far from bespeaking conditions of climate such as can alone be fairly described as Glacial, on the contrary, speak to us of a time when the general temperature...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s001675680016412x 2024-03-03T08:47:06+00:00 V.—Traces of a Great Post-Glacial Flood Howorth, Henry. H. 1883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001675680016412x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S001675680016412X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Geological Magazine volume 10, issue 2, page 71-78 ISSN 0016-7568 1469-5081 Geology journal-article 1883 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s001675680016412x 2024-02-08T08:42:24Z What is the burden of all these facts? Why, assuredly that the shells found in our higher marine drifts, or at least in nearly all of them, far from bespeaking conditions of climate such as can alone be fairly described as Glacial, on the contrary, speak to us of a time when the general temperature was perhaps somewhat lower than it is now, but when the North Sea and North Atlantic were filled with open water, and bathed a land where the Mammoth and the Rhinoceros could find abundant food, where the Oak and the Pine flourished, and where the rivers could sustain such molluscs as the Cyrena fluminalis. This conclusion destroys at once the basis of those who have argued that our high-level marine drifts were left where they are found by ice—either by floating bergs or a creeping ice-foot. But apart from the general conclusion which the particular collocation of shells enables us to make, quite a number of facts may be collected going to show the impossibility of ice having been the motive power which deposited such beds as those at Moel Tryfaen. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Cambridge University Press Geological Magazine 10 2 71 78 |
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What is the burden of all these facts? Why, assuredly that the shells found in our higher marine drifts, or at least in nearly all of them, far from bespeaking conditions of climate such as can alone be fairly described as Glacial, on the contrary, speak to us of a time when the general temperature was perhaps somewhat lower than it is now, but when the North Sea and North Atlantic were filled with open water, and bathed a land where the Mammoth and the Rhinoceros could find abundant food, where the Oak and the Pine flourished, and where the rivers could sustain such molluscs as the Cyrena fluminalis. This conclusion destroys at once the basis of those who have argued that our high-level marine drifts were left where they are found by ice—either by floating bergs or a creeping ice-foot. But apart from the general conclusion which the particular collocation of shells enables us to make, quite a number of facts may be collected going to show the impossibility of ice having been the motive power which deposited such beds as those at Moel Tryfaen. |
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