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Formations Outside the Ice-sheets 446 



On the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 447. Stratigraphic rela- 

 tions, 451. Fossils, 451. In the interior, 454. In the west, 

 455. Lacustrine deposits: Lake Bonneville, 455. Lake 

 Lahontan, 463. Mono Lake, 467. Glacial deposits, 467. 

 Glacial lake deposits, 469. Topographic unconformity, 471. 

 Alluvial and talus deposits, 472. Eolian deposits, 474. 

 Deposition from solution, 475. Marine deposits, 476. Igne- 

 ous rocks, 477. 



Changes of Level During the Pleistocene 480 



Foreign 483 



The Life of the Pleistocene Period 483 



Destructive effects of glaciation, 483. To-and-fro migra- 

 tion, 485. Definite climatic zones, 486. Climatic adapta- 

 tions, 486. Superposition of cold and warm faunas and floras 

 in the record, 487. Mixing of relics, 488. Real intermingling 

 of northern and southern species, 488. Cave deposits, 488. 

 Existing Alpine remnants of the migrations, 489. 



Life of the Interglacial Stages. 490 



The Toronto beds, 490. Other interglacial epochs, 493. 

 Marine life onthe more nor therly coasts, 494. Marine life on 

 - the more southerly coasts, 495. 



The Terrestrial Life of the Non-glacial Regions 495 



The boreal group, 496. The southern group, 498. 



The European Pleistocene Life 498 



Oscillatory migrations, 498. 



The Pleistocene Life of the Southern Hemisphere 500 



Life in South America, 500. Australian life, 501. Life 

 in Africa, 501. 



Man in the Glacial Period. . . 502 



In America, 502. Sources of good evidence, 512. In 

 Europe, 513. Other references relative to the antiquity of 

 man, 516. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 THE HUMAN OR PRESENT PERIOD. 



General Considerations 517 



The end of the Glacial period, 517. Future glaciation, 517. 

 The end of the deformation period, 518. The suggestions of 



