VI.—Glaciation of Eastern Canada
A Paper on the Glaciation of Eastern Canada by the writer will shortly appear in the Canadian Record of Science , Montreal. It is intended to be a condensed statement of the principal facts hitherto collected on this interesting subject, with references to the reports and publications in which detai...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0016756800189137 2024-03-03T08:44:40+00:00 VI.—Glaciation of Eastern Canada Chalmers, Robert 1889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800189137 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800189137 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Geological Magazine volume 6, issue 5, page 211-214 ISSN 0016-7568 1469-5081 Geology journal-article 1889 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800189137 2024-02-08T08:32:52Z A Paper on the Glaciation of Eastern Canada by the writer will shortly appear in the Canadian Record of Science , Montreal. It is intended to be a condensed statement of the principal facts hitherto collected on this interesting subject, with references to the reports and publications in which details are given. The following is an abstract which I send to the Geological Magazine in advance. The subject is regarded as an important one, and has occupied the attention of geologists for many years, as Eastern Canada is the battle ground, so to speak, of the advocates of the rival theories of continental glaciation and floating ice. The results thus far obtained from a somewhat careful study of its glacial phenomena, however, point to conclusions which are at variance with those held by extreme glacialists, and show that the theory of local glaciers upon the more elevated portions of the country and icebergs or floating ice striating the lower coastal areas during the Post-Tertiary submergence of these, as maintained by Sir William Dawson, will serve to explain all the observed phenomena. Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier* Cambridge University Press Canada Geological Magazine 6 5 211 214 |
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A Paper on the Glaciation of Eastern Canada by the writer will shortly appear in the Canadian Record of Science , Montreal. It is intended to be a condensed statement of the principal facts hitherto collected on this interesting subject, with references to the reports and publications in which details are given. The following is an abstract which I send to the Geological Magazine in advance. The subject is regarded as an important one, and has occupied the attention of geologists for many years, as Eastern Canada is the battle ground, so to speak, of the advocates of the rival theories of continental glaciation and floating ice. The results thus far obtained from a somewhat careful study of its glacial phenomena, however, point to conclusions which are at variance with those held by extreme glacialists, and show that the theory of local glaciers upon the more elevated portions of the country and icebergs or floating ice striating the lower coastal areas during the Post-Tertiary submergence of these, as maintained by Sir William Dawson, will serve to explain all the observed phenomena. |
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