V.—On the South of England Ice-Sheet
In the Reader , 14th October, 1865, and afterwards more fully in my papers on the “Boulder-clay of Caithness,” and on the “ Transport of the Wastdale Crag Blocks,” 2 the following were shown from physical considerations to be necessary results, viz.:— 1. That were the ice of Greenland much thicker t...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0016756800168037 2024-03-03T08:44:59+00:00 V.—On the South of England Ice-Sheet Croll, James 1874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800168037 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800168037 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Geological Magazine volume 1, issue 6, page 257-257 ISSN 0016-7568 1469-5081 Geology journal-article 1874 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800168037 2024-02-08T08:39:02Z In the Reader , 14th October, 1865, and afterwards more fully in my papers on the “Boulder-clay of Caithness,” and on the “ Transport of the Wastdale Crag Blocks,” 2 the following were shown from physical considerations to be necessary results, viz.:— 1. That were the ice of Greenland much thicker than it is at present, which it evidently was during the Glacial Epoch, it would not float in Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay, and consequently, would not break up into icebergs, but would move over upon the North American continent in one continuous mass, and pursue its course southwards, until it gradually melted away under the influence of the Sun's heat. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Ice Sheet Cambridge University Press Greenland Geological Magazine 1 6 257 257 |
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In the Reader , 14th October, 1865, and afterwards more fully in my papers on the “Boulder-clay of Caithness,” and on the “ Transport of the Wastdale Crag Blocks,” 2 the following were shown from physical considerations to be necessary results, viz.:— 1. That were the ice of Greenland much thicker than it is at present, which it evidently was during the Glacial Epoch, it would not float in Davis Straits and Baffin's Bay, and consequently, would not break up into icebergs, but would move over upon the North American continent in one continuous mass, and pursue its course southwards, until it gradually melted away under the influence of the Sun's heat. |
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