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VI.—The Boulder-clay of Caithness a Product of Land-ice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

James Croll
James Croll
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Scotland
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We must consider that the ice from Scotland and England was but a fraction of that which entered the North Sea. The greater part of the ice of Scandinavia must have gone into this sea, and if the ice of our island could not find water sufficiently deep in which to float, far less would the much thicker ice of Scandinavia do so. The Scandinavian ice, before it could break up, would thus, like the Scottish ice, have to cross the bed of the North Sea and pass into the Atlantic. It could not pass to the north, nor to the north-west, for the ocean in these directions would be blocked up by the Polar ice.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 72 , June 1870 , pp. 271 - 278
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1870

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References

page 273 note 1 Tracings of the North of Europe, 1850, pp. 48–51.

page 273 note 2 Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., vol. ii. p. 364.

page 273 note 3 Tracings of the North of Europe by Robert Chambers, pp. 259, 285. Observations sur les phénoménes D'Erosion en Norwege, by M. Hörbye, 1857.

page 276 note 1 Glacial Drift of Scotland, p. 29.

page 276 note 2 Geological Magazine, vol. ii., p. 343. Brit. Assoc. Rep., 1864 (sections), p. 59.

page 276 note 3 Trans. Roy. Soc., Edin., vol. vii., p. 265.

page 276 note 4 Tracings of Iceland and the Faroe Islands, p. 49.

page 276 note 5 Meteorological Papers published by the Board of Trade. No. 12. 1865.