t 



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rook 



•ned to 

 os find |L 



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IT. 



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PLIOCENE GLACIERS AND DRIFT ICE. 



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51. — Slaty rock, polished and striated, in place at 



Wt 



Upper 

 Galleey, 



52. — Scratched moraine stone, from the same locality. 



Table-case 

 in Recess 41, 



53. 



yf Hup 



ar GlUv taining erratic blocks and covering polished rocks. 



the termini 

 mid. 



3 LACK Lffl 



Rosa, 



e. 



I LIMESTO)' 



vey, Lake 



tated to 



Specimens, described as moraine matter by M. Dolfus- 

 Ausset, from the neighbourhood of Mulhouse and the Upper 

 Rhine.* 



55. — Fine sandy clay, in place at Rudisheim, about 2 



(Upp 



Form s a hill 32 feet 



in height, above a " moraine " formed of Alpine pebbles. 

 56. — Sand, in place at Rixhein, about 5^ miles east of 



I 



Mulhouse. This sand has been washed by the streams from 

 a moraine. 



57. — Same as above. 



58. — Very fine sand, forming a mound 32 feet high, at 

 Schliengen, 1£ miles from the right bank of the Rhine, 



u 



the & 



! 



lacier* 



he 



fll0 



the 



icef 



n 



iii« c ; 







Newer Pliocene glaciers and drift-ice. 



The following summary is chiefly derived from what I 

 have elsewhere written on the subject. It will have been 

 gathered from preceding remarks, that the existence of 

 glaciers where none are now found, and of ancient Ter- 

 tiary icy-seas, was not confined to Britain. These subjects 

 have attracted much attention among able observers ; but 

 long after Playfair had indicated the transporting power of 



* In part, they may be derived from ice-drifted erratic matter. 



