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I.—Four and a Half Months in Crete in Search of Pleistocene Mammalian Remains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Dorothea M. A. Bate
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The geological map of Crete shows that a large portion of the island is composed of ancient limestone, in itself almost a guarantee of the presence of Pleistocene cave deposits. In confirmation of this, Admiral Spratt in his most valuable work mentions finding two such deposits, from one of which he obtained a few mammalian remains.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , May 1905 , pp. 195 - 203
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1905

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page 195 note 1 “Travels and Researches in Crete,” 2 vols.; London, 1865.

page 196 note 1 Op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 194–5.

page 196 note 2 I have been unable to find any account of these remains published by Dr. Falconer.

page 196 note 3 Spratt, op. cit., vol. ii, chap. xix.

page 197 note 1 This is an isolated homestead which, although close to Kalivjannee, is called Mesoghia, no doubt after the villages of that name to which it probably belongs.

page 197 note 2 Op. cit. vol. ii chap. xix, pp. 195–6, etc. Suess also gives a list of records in connection; see “La Face de la Terre,” vol. ii, pp. 700–1 and 740.

page 197 note 3 That this was only local is proved by the fact that in the east of the island a contrary movement has occurred also within historic times. See Spratt, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 21–2, etc., and Suess, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 700–1.

page 197 note 4 Admiral Spratt even says in discussing the disappearance of the harbour at Tripiti, on the south coast, which was described by the author of the “Stadiasmus,” that this is “another proof of the great upheaval along the coast having taken place since a late Roman period, the date of the ‘Stadiasmus’ being considered to be about that time” (op. cit., vol. ii, p. 246).

page 198 note 1 An interesting paper dealing with this subject is “Submarine Gullies, River Outlets, and Fresh-water Escapes beneath the Sea-level,” by Benest, H., Assoc. M. Inst. C. E.: Geog. Journal, October, 1899, vol. xiv, pp. 394–413.Google Scholar

page 199 note 1 Op. cit., vol. i, p. 181, and Spratt, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 270–1.

page 199 note 2 A few land-shells were obtained here, and have been identified by the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen as Helix pellita, Fer.

page 199 note 3 A few fragmentary remains of a large proboscidian were found in the rocks close to this cave. They have not yet been examined, but will probably prove to be of earlier age than Pleistocene.

page 200 note 1 Spratt, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 386.

page 200 note 2 Ibid., pp. 386–7.

page 201 note 1 Op. cit., vol. ii, p. 176.

page 201 note 2 Ibid., p. 387.

page 202 note 1 Ossiferous remains occur in the cliff-face immediately below the mouth of this cave, as well as inside (see Spratt, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 195).