IV.—Further Remarks on Mr. James Geikie's Correlation of Glacial Deposits
In a republication of the papers by him which appeared in successive numbers of this Magazine, Mr. James Geikie has replied to the objections which I offered to his views, and also to the views of sequence which I myself advance, by asserting that the seaward ends of glaciers never float; and that m...
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| Summary: | In a republication of the papers by him which appeared in successive numbers of this Magazine, Mr. James Geikie has replied to the objections which I offered to his views, and also to the views of sequence which I myself advance, by asserting that the seaward ends of glaciers never float; and that my view that “wherever the ice-sheet rested there no deposit occurred, the material produced by its action incessantly travelling outwards to the ice-edge,” is a misconception. |
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