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J. G. ANDERSSON, 
(Schwed. Südpolar-Exp. 
are much too fragile to have stood the attack of an inland-ice. When all these 
facts are taken into consideration it may be stated that the Falkland Islands have 
not been glaciated during the Quaternary period. Probably the low rounded sand- 
stone-hills are not good centres for the accumulation of glaciers, and possibly also 
the ground itself is unfavourable to the development of an ice-cover.^ 
After all, it seems very probable that the conditions of the Falkland Islands 
during the ice age were very much like those nozu prevailing on Bear Island: a 
subglacial climate zvith a complete melting away m the sJimmertime of the winter s 
snoza-cover, zvith a pozuerful and zuidely extended solifluction caused by the snozv- 
melting azid zvith a scarce and scattered vegetation that in many places sziccumbed 
to the flozving soil. 
According to the preceding statemezit the large, fixed stonerivers may be con- 
sidered to have been formed durizig the ice-age as an extra-glacial facies to the 
maximum glaciation of the szirroundizig lands. 
But on the other hand it ought not to be forgotten that solifluction is still at 
work in these islands on a small scale in some favourable localities where the hill- 
sides are steep, the vegetation scarce, and the trickling water saturates the soil 
Such cases are described above from Port Stephens and from Fox Bay. 
Another deposit formed by solifluction is reproduced in fig. I2. H is a wall of 
sea-weed marking the present limit of high-water. Above this limit I measured the 
following section: 
a) Solid rock exhibiting water-worn surfaces which extend underneath 
the bed b l,e m. 
' For the influence of the rock-character on the glaciation see my paper »On the geology of Graham 
Land». Bull. Geol. Inst. Uppsala Vol. VII. P. 24. This subject will be treated more in detail in an ar- 
ticle that will appear shortly. 
