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drops off OTtiz* toistr iiujidn»d feet p9T mll«, lends weight 

 to tile poasibiiity of f suitiiij?: ,1 or at l«s»t dowiwefplng, 

 Jftere* axkuh sulDfliu<@aee £i%s ixi wiul; tm process believed 

 to Ueve sute£ierge4 tkm Thais&a PX«t«eu &!aA converted Xe«» 

 lanti into an isiaawS (ssq psge ?)• 



£»6urQft of 30di»eats Qt t t lie j-^out b.& a at e tu ga«i 



■ rm iiw^i I ■ I ■ TT IT ' I ~ i -n iTn' — n — n rT~'-mi"n — ■"* — '— n"r i T"n-~~ — r -i T- ~i — i i "- ii Tn nr>- — i — \ - \ - t ■ ■■ iir -m' i HT fc uw ii .n 



edge of th& ttoesrtiBl plfela ]&©ar exttiisivw ies flnlilB,. which 



s«nd iob«» dowQ e'9'«ipy 6VRill»bl# •vt.illijy, ^it»&mB flowing 



tTQA those lo^@8 osrry tr«^i(^cious <iu@iitltl#s of mud, 



Sdhd, and grs-?©! «t©ro!-ia th# aoastel pl&la to %m »ea, 2t 



has fe««fl «stiast04 (2S,p.74) that tim ssdiiaent Ci^rried 



out by a single sub-giaclaX atr®-sa on th« csoast of Gr©fj«- 



Xsxid, which Ifi GO}s^#rahX(''» to t>h® southern XoalaiidlD eo^^itf 



e aousts to ov>»t I'^.OOO tons p«r day, Th© qusatlty of 



e«di»9at at»xiV'»jkt?u x.g th@ seiSi h^r th)» stj^sam ia one year 



would thud totul 5i millioa tou&l 



Thorodd3«ii a<»»«!7ih«« this s^^aimentatioa in 



th« followia*? peBa>st.fe«(24,p.206); 



•* Aiaoat »ll le«iiaftiiie glaci®r« r«ot oa 

 soft rocks (tuff ead brecoi*) upon which 

 «roiilv«i iiiotioa ia ^ery ectivoj therefore, 

 'Um Xtlilftfidlo |{laoi»r-rlv«!r^ oarry down 

 en iiMenos •«ouat ©r rock ia the form of 

 i&ud,srrjQd, srtiMidl, «ad blocks of atone; 

 for this r«89on th«y are hardly ov«»r 

 found entering f^ord® or d®t»p b»ys, th«9» 

 having b«OQai« lilled up in ouama whare they 

 foxavriy so entdrt^d,** 



