xvi CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE XIX. 



POSTGLACIAL AND RECENT DEPOSITS OF THE BRITISH 



islands — Continued. 



Correlation of English Postglacial accumulations — Resume of the evidence 

 — Raised-beaches of English coasts — Postglacial accumulations of 

 inland districts — Their unconforntability to Glacial and Palaeolithic 

 deposits — English rivers of larger volume in Postglacial times — 

 Lacustrine alluvia and peat-bogs of England — Their organic remains 

 — Succession of forest-layers in English peat — Arctic flora at Bovey 

 Tracey — Postglacial mammals of England — Postglacial and recent 

 deposits of Ireland — Submarine trees and peat — Raised-beaches — 

 Neolithic kitchen-middens — Successive tiers of trees in bogs of 

 inland districts — Mr. Kinahan's observations on succession of changes 

 which these imply — Human relics in Irish bogs — Postglacial mam- 

 malia , t Pages 451-463 



CHAPTEE XX. 



POSTGLACIAL AND RECENT DEPOSITS OF THE CONTINENT. 



Postglacial and recent deposits of Norway and Sweden — No direct pass- 

 age from Glacial into Postglacial accumulations — Postglacial shelly 

 clays, etc. — Character of the moUuscan fauna — Contrast between 

 sheUy clays of the east of Sweden and those of Western Sweden and 

 Norway — Height of Swedish and Norwegian shell-banks above sea- 

 level — Postglacial freshwater and marine deposits of Finland — Un- 

 fossiliferous clay and sand above shelly clays of Norway and Sweden 

 — Postglacial erratics resting on shelly clays of Eastern Sweden — 

 General conclusions—Submerged peat of Scania — Raised-beaches of 

 same region — Submerged peat and trees of Denmark ; of Schleswig- 

 Holstein ; of East Friesland and HoUand ; of Flemish coast ; of 

 Somine Valley ; of Normandy and Brittany ; of Arcachon and 

 Biarritz— Age of the submerged forests of the Channel area — Peat- 

 bogs of Denmark ; of Norway — Rate of growth of peat — Arctic flora 

 in Postglacial deposits of Southern Sweden, of Brandenburg, and 

 other parts of Germany — Peat of Champagne, its organic remains — 

 Peat-bogs in other regions of Europe — No trace of Palaeolithic man 

 in any Postglacial accumulations — Postglacial deposits of Spitzbergen. 



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