SPITZBERGEN. 



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Jurassic, and ev,en some tertiary, are represented. Miocene deposits near Bell 

 Sound contain an extensive fossil flora, poplars, alder, hazel, cypress, and plane trees 

 showing that in this period the climate must have resembled that of Scandinavia 



Fig. 83.— Sl'ITZKEKGEN AllCHIl'ELAGO. 



Scale 1 • 3,400,000. 



25° LofP 



80' 



T/,e{7'/sM? ^%^^^'>/^ '' 



NarthC, 





/.Âmstef^afn 





78" 



7«' 



X^^-^SouthJCap, 



CofO 



50 ISIilea. 



about the sixtieth parallel. Some of the chalks contain fine marbles. An attempt 

 has been made to work the rich phosphate beds of the Ijs-fiord ; lumps of coal are 

 brought down by the glaciers ; and Blomstrand has discovered carboniferous 



