EARLY DISCOVERERS XXXIV EARLY DISCOVERIES OF THE EFFECTS OF ICE ACTION

• Main Authors: R. Banks, Eric A. Colhoun, David Hannan
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: As early as 1723; a Swiss naturalist; Scheuchzer; Ramsay; Selwyn; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.634.3546; http://www.igsoc.org/journal/33/114/igs_journal_vol33_issue114_pg231-235.pdf

ABSTRACT. The effects of past glaciation in what is now Australian territory were first recognized on Macquarie Island, probably by David Ramsay, in 1821. The recognition by Darwin in 1836, and reporting by Milligan in 1848 of ice-transported pebbles and boulders in late Palaeozoic marine rocks in Tasmania, showed on the one hand partICipation in and on the other familiarity with the controversy in Great Britain at that time on the origin of erratics and drift currents. Reports by Clarke (1852), Daintree in 1859, Selwyn (1860), and Gould (1860) of the effects of land ice on Mount Koscuisko (New South Wales)