﻿Vol. 
  53.] 
  GLACIAL 
  DEPOSITS 
  OF 
  THE 
  VARAtfGER 
  PIORD. 
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  those 
  of 
  ice-worn 
  surfaces 
  that, 
  although 
  no 
  striation 
  of 
  the 
  gneiss 
  

   had 
  been 
  observed, 
  they 
  at 
  once 
  suggested 
  the 
  influence 
  of 
  glaciation. 
  

   Again, 
  the 
  composition, 
  disorder, 
  and 
  lenticular 
  character 
  of 
  the 
  

   coarse 
  conglomerates 
  sometimes 
  met 
  with 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  

   Torridonian 
  Series 
  might 
  perhaps 
  find 
  their 
  counterparts 
  in 
  the 
  

   Gaisa 
  rocks. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  J. 
  W. 
  Gregory 
  thought 
  that 
  the 
  Society 
  was 
  to 
  be 
  con- 
  

   gratulated 
  on 
  this 
  paper, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  opportunity 
  of 
  seeing 
  the 
  

   Author's 
  admirable 
  photographs 
  of 
  the 
  rocks. 
  The 
  previous 
  failure 
  

   to 
  discover 
  traces 
  of 
  glacial 
  action 
  in 
  high 
  northern 
  latitudes 
  in 
  

   pre-Pleistocene 
  times 
  gave 
  wide 
  interest 
  to 
  Reusch's 
  paper 
  ; 
  and 
  

   the 
  corroboration 
  of 
  his 
  views 
  was 
  of 
  great 
  value. 
  The 
  speaker 
  

   thought 
  the 
  deposits 
  of 
  special 
  interest, 
  as 
  similar 
  conglomerates 
  

   occupying 
  identically 
  the 
  same 
  stratigraphical 
  position 
  occur 
  all 
  

   round 
  the 
  Polar 
  basin, 
  and 
  in 
  places 
  where 
  their 
  age 
  can 
  be 
  proved. 
  

   In 
  Spitsbergen 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  conglomerates 
  was 
  discovered 
  

   last 
  summer, 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  there 
  pre-Devonian. 
  Mr. 
  Garwood, 
  

   during 
  his 
  ascent 
  of 
  Hornsund 
  Tind, 
  found 
  fossils 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   series. 
  In 
  North-eastern 
  Greenland 
  the 
  conglomerates, 
  associated 
  

   with 
  the 
  same 
  red 
  rocks, 
  quartzites, 
  etc., 
  are 
  known 
  to 
  occur, 
  from 
  

   the 
  work 
  of 
  Payer 
  and 
  Ryder 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  beds 
  re-appear 
  from 
  beneath 
  

   the 
  ice-cap 
  on 
  the 
  western 
  coast 
  of 
  Greenland. 
  Partner 
  south 
  they 
  

   occur 
  in 
  Labrador, 
  as 
  part 
  of 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  red 
  rocks 
  and 
  quartzites 
  

   resting 
  on 
  the 
  metamorphic 
  rocks, 
  and 
  are 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  Cambrian 
  ; 
  

   the 
  conglomerates 
  consist 
  of 
  boulders, 
  some 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  rounded, 
  

   and 
  others 
  are 
  angular, 
  while 
  A. 
  P. 
  Low 
  states 
  that 
  they 
  range 
  in 
  

   weight 
  from 
  an 
  ounce 
  to 
  a 
  ton. 
  Parther 
  north-west 
  the 
  beds 
  occur 
  

   in 
  the 
  North-eastern 
  Provinces, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  Coppermine 
  River, 
  and 
  

   finally 
  they 
  re-appear 
  on 
  the 
  northern 
  coast 
  of 
  Siberia. 
  The 
  con- 
  

   glomerates 
  are 
  therefore 
  probably 
  part 
  of 
  a 
  circumpolar 
  belt. 
  

   Palagontological 
  evidence 
  for 
  their 
  correlation 
  is 
  wanting, 
  but 
  they 
  

   always 
  occur 
  resting 
  on 
  the 
  metamorphic 
  series, 
  and 
  are 
  older 
  than 
  

   the 
  oldest 
  fossiliferous 
  rocks 
  of 
  the 
  area 
  wherein 
  they 
  occur 
  ; 
  indeed, 
  

   it 
  can 
  be 
  often 
  proved 
  that 
  they 
  are 
  pre-Silurian. 
  The 
  absence 
  of 
  

   Silurian 
  or 
  Devonian 
  pebbles 
  in 
  the 
  Yaranger 
  Piord 
  conglomerates 
  is 
  

   a 
  strong 
  argument 
  for 
  their 
  early 
  Palaeozoic 
  age, 
  as 
  Silurian 
  rocks 
  

   probably 
  once 
  occurred 
  a 
  little 
  farther 
  north. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  George 
  Barrow 
  wished 
  to 
  know 
  exactly 
  what 
  the 
  Author 
  

   meant 
  by 
  the 
  sentence 
  ' 
  the 
  Boulder 
  Clay 
  has 
  a 
  somewhat 
  schistose 
  

   structure.' 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Httdleston, 
  having 
  visited 
  the 
  Yaranger 
  Piord 
  some 
  forty- 
  

   two 
  years 
  ago, 
  could 
  to 
  a 
  certain 
  extent 
  corroborate 
  the 
  Author's 
  

   statements 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  arenaceous 
  

   quartzite 
  system 
  prevailing 
  in 
  Eastern 
  Pinmark. 
  Beyond 
  the 
  

   region 
  shown 
  in 
  his 
  map, 
  on 
  the 
  eastern 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Tana 
  Fiord, 
  the 
  

   Stanganes 
  Pjeld 
  rises 
  rather 
  steeply 
  to 
  heights 
  probably 
  reaching 
  

   3000 
  feet. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  quartzite 
  wilderness, 
  almost 
  as 
  white 
  as 
  snow, 
  

   having 
  a 
  strong 
  external 
  resemblance 
  to 
  the 
  quartzite-mountains 
  of 
  

   the 
  North-western 
  Highlands 
  ; 
  the 
  system 
  might 
  thus 
  include 
  both 
  

   Torridonian 
  and 
  basal 
  Cambrian 
  beds. 
  

  

  The 
  importance 
  of 
  the 
  Author's 
  verification 
  of 
  Reusch's 
  statements 
  

  

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