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III.—On the Cause of the Depression and Re-elevation of the Land during the Glacial Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Thomas F. Jamieson
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In a paper published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for January, 1860, p. 178, I drew attention to the remarkable fact that in various parts of the world the presence of glaciers had been attended by a submergence of the land, and I suggested that the enormous weight of ice laid upon the surface of the country might have caused a depression, while the melting of the ice would also account for the rising again of the land which seems to have everywhere followed some time after the ice disappeared.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 9 , Issue 9 , September 1882 , pp. 400 - 407
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1882

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page 401 note 1 Macclesfield, Cheshire, see Geol. Mag. 1865, Vol. II. pp. 293–299.Google Scholar

page 402 note 1 Trans, of Halifax Institute, 8th May, 1866.

page 402 note 2 Quart. Journ. of the Geol. Soc. vol. i. p. 541.

page 403 note 1 A. Helland found the sp. grav. of the Greenland icebergs to be 886. See Quart. Journ. of the Geol. Soc. vol. xxxiii. p. 155, 02. 1877.Google Scholar

page 405 note 1 See Le Conte, J., On the Old River Beds of California, in the American Journal of Science, for 03, 1880.Google Scholar

page 406 note 1 Geol. Mag. 1872, pp. 392 and 485. Mr. Alfred Tylor calculated that a deposit of snow and ice 1500 feet thick over an area of land one-tenth of that of the sea, would reduce the level of the ocean 150 feet. He supposes a subsidence of 600 feet altogether.