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Title: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Geological Society of London
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: London (etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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t part of Europe, we may expect to find, to the south of the ice-covered region, traces of contemporaneous freshwater deposits, andremains of the continental fauna that flourished during the longperiod that the North was covered with ice. The valley of theEnglish Channel and the southern portion of the German Oceanwere then probably dry land, and may have been haunted by mam-malia of various kinds, and hence the quantity of Elephants teethand bones they contain. To a part of this period probably belongsthe forest-bed underlying the boulder-clay of the Norfolk coast,and whose tree-stumps are rooted in the Norwich Crag. Maech 5, 1862. George Eord Copeland, Esq., M.E.C.S., 5 Bays Hill Villas, Chel-tenham ; William James Dunsford, Esq., 14 Taviton Street, GordonSquare; Charles Henry Gatty, Esq., E.L.S., Eelbridge Park, EastGrinstead, Sussex; and Alexander Henry Green, Esq., M.A., Eellowof Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, were elected Eellows. The following communication was read:—
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1862.) RAMSAY—GLACIAL ORIGIN OF LAKES. 185 On the Glacial Origin of certain Lakes in Switzerland, the BlackForest, Great Britain, Sweden, North America, and elsewhere.By A. C. Bamsay, F.B.S., President of the Geological Society, &c (Plate VIII.) Contents. Erroneous theories of the Transportof Alpine Blocks: reasons for aban-doning them. Old Distribution of the Great AlpineGlaciers. Connexion between Tarns and Gla-ciers. Origin of the Great Alpine Lakes.The Great Lakes:— The Lake of Geneva. The Lake of Thun. The Lake of Lucerne.The Lake of Zurich.The Wallen See.The Lake of Constance.The Italian Lakes.Summary with regard to the AlpineLakes. Lakes of the Northern Hemisphere generally.The Glacial Theory. Erroneous Theories of the Transport of Alpine Blocks.—In the year1859, in a series of papers by the members of the Alpine Club, Ipublished a memoir in which I compared the old glaciers of NorthWales with those of Switzerland; and in it, among other matters, Iexplained the glacia

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