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IV.—Further Remarks on Mr. James Geikie's Correlation of Glacial Deposits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. V. Wood Jun
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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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Geological Magazine , Volume 9 , Issue 98 , August 1872 , pp. 352 - 355
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page 352 note 1 In supposing that, so soon as it has a tendency to float, the glacier breaks off into bergs from the rise and fall of the tide, Mr. Geikie seems to me to have overlooked the fact that in such deep water and open sea as that in which the Antarctic ice terminates, the vertical movement of the tide is altogether insignificant. It is to the Antarctic, rather than the Arctic regions, that we must turn to find the ice conditions of our Glacial period.

page 354 note 1 Besides the observations as to the position of the Bridlington bed in the Crag Supplement Introduction, and in various papers of mine in this Magazine, the respective horizons of the Bridlington bed and of Dimlington Cliff base will be found marked in my vertical section of the Glacial sequence of the East side of England, at page 90 of vol. xxvi. of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society.