THE 



JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 



OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1S96, 



SALIENT POINTS CONCERNING THE GLACIAL 

 GEOLOGY OF NORTH GREENLAND. 



CONTENTS. 



Possibility of continuous glaciation between Greenland and adjacent lands 



Continuous glaciation across other bodies of water. 



Steep slope of glaciers and ice-sheet. 



Stratification and veining of the ice. 



Contortion of the layers and lamina;. 



The upturning of layers of ice at the ends and edges of glaciers. 



Upturning layers and superficial debris. 



The making of lateral moraines. 



Load and motion. 



Morainic embankments. 



Superficial drift. 



Physical and chemical conditions of superglacial drift. 



Glacial drainage. 



Kames and eskers. 



Possihi/itj' of co)itinuo7is glaciation betzveen Greenland a)id adjacoit 

 lands. — The study of the west coast of Greenland raised, but 

 did not settle, the c]uestion of the possibility of continuous 

 glaciation from a land mass, such as Greenland, over an inter- 

 vening body of water, such as Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, to 

 another land mass, such as the continent of North America. 

 While the idea that the North American ice of the glacial epoch 

 had its center in Greenland is no longer tenable, it does not 

 appear that the possibility of such a thing has been doubted. 



Even a cursory inspection of the west coast of Greenland 

 seemed to show clearly that ice has not overridden the entire 

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