A RESUME OF THE PHYSIOGRAPHY AND GLACIAL 

 GEOLOGY OF VICTORIA LAND, ANTARCTICA 



BY GRIFFITH TAYLOR, B.Sc., B.E., B.A., F.G.S. 



IT is always a wise principle in research to proceed from the 

 known to the unknown. So little has been written on the subject 

 in question that we should have almost a blank sheet were it not 

 for the geologists of Shackleton's Expedition, whose detailed 



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Vertical Section, shouting foundered and fractured east slope cfVitkoru 



Vertical Section, skutv'mg iounitftd. aruLfraciurcd, east sL0pe ofAustralia, (lj'S.Lat) 



( After Ttyssor'DtMJ. ) 



work is not yet published. Let us glance at a map of the South 

 Polar regions, however, and see if we can deduce any useful 

 principles from neighbouring lands. 



The physiography of the eastern coast of Australia has been 

 subjected to a somewhat detailed investigation during the last 

 ten years, with the result that it is found to exhibit splendid ex- 

 amples of subsidence, trough faulting, and rivers ' drowned ' by 

 the sea. Great slices of the coast have sunk below the waves 

 fairly lately in geological times, so that many of the great rivers 



