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IV.—Erratics at High Levels in North-Western America—Barriers to a Great Ice-Sheet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

George M. Dawson
Affiliation:
Geologist to H.M. North-American Boundary Commission.

Extract

In the last edition of his Great lee Age (1877), Mr. Geikie has noticed at some length my descriptions of the glaciation and superficial deposits of the central region of North America, from Lake Superior to the Kocky Mountains; giving an outline of the facts recorded, and of the explanation of these facts which I have ventured to present as that which appeared to me most probable.

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Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1878

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References

page 209 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Nov. 1875; also Geology and Resources of the 49th Parallel.

page 210 note 1 Great Ice Age. p. 472.

page 210 note 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1875, p. 622.

page 211 note 1 Acadian Geology, p. 65.

page 211 note 2 Geology and Resources of the 49th Parallel, p. 253.

page 211 note 3 Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain.

page 212 note 1 Canadian Naturalist, vol. viii., No. 4, p. 197.Google Scholar