THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
VOL. XXXVI. NOVEMBER, 1905. No. 5. 
GLACIAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN. 
By Prop. G. Frederick Wright, Oberlin, Ohio, 
PLATE XIV. 
Having had the privilege of spending two or three days 
with Dr. N. O. Hoist, while he was engaged in surveying 
for the geological map of Skane, the southern province of 
Sweden, I am permitted to bring before the English public 
some of the important and remarkable discoveries which 
he has made. These relate first to the direction and force 
of the ice movement, and secondly to the unity of the 
period. 
Skane, the most fertile province of Sweden, projects 
southward of the main peninsula so as to make it almost 
a part of Denmark, to which by virtue of its physical geo- 
graphy it properly belongs. It is completely covered with 
glacial deposits to a depth of 100 or 200 feet. A very well 
defined terminal moraine runs across the province east and 
west, about midway between the north and south boun- 
daries. 
The material in this moraine is to a considerable extent 
derived from Finland, showing that the center of glacial 
dispersion was somewhat farther east in Scandinavia than 
has been supposed. Both the direction of the moraine and 
the material of which it is constituted'show that in southern 
Skane the final ice movement had a northwesterly direction. 
That is, the ice, after moving down the axis of the Baltic 
sea in a southwesterly direction, when it passed the low 
mountains bordering the northeastern part of Skane. must 
have found the line of least resistance in the direction of 
the North sea, causing it to turn around towards the north, 
