QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



February 15, 1860. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1 . On the Probably Glacial Origin of some Norwegian Lakes. 

 By T. Codrlngton, Esq., F.G.S. 



The lakes to which attention is called are those so frequently 

 found situated at a short distance from the head of a fjord on the 

 western coast of Norway. The fjord and the valley in which such a 

 lake lies are parts of one mighty chasm hounded by almost perpen- 

 dicular mountains, which rise often thousands of feet from the water's 

 edge. The valley generally shows traces of the former existence of 

 a glacier, and is now occupied by a rapid river. Instead of at once 

 emptying itself into the fjord, this river falls into a lake perhaps six 

 or seven English miles long, but rarely a mile wide, and very deep. 

 Between this lake and the fjord, there is a barrier consisting of 

 rolled stones, shingle, and coarse sand, roughly stratified, through 

 which an outfall has been cut to the fjord. The distances be- 

 tween some of these lakes and the fjord arc subjoined, from which 

 the mass of these deposits may be estimated : — 

 Lakes. 



f SogndaLs Yand 3] miles from Fjord. 



I Haslo Yand 3j „ 



Soguc J Ycitstrands Yand l| „ 



Fjord. ) Skiolden Yand 1 „ 



Aardal Yand 1.] 



(jUrland Yand 2 



Vor,. XVI. I'AKT I. 2 I) 



Easlo. 



l'jnl',1. 



