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III.—The Terraces of the Chalk Downs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. Poulett Scrope
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Mr. Mackintosh (Vol. III., p. 69, and p. 155, of the Geol. Mag.) adduces the preservation of numerous terraces on the hill-sides in the Cretaceous districts of ‘Wilts. and Dorest,’ as “evidence of limited subaerial denudation since those terraces were formed,” for that they are “raised sea-beaches,” he says, admits of no doubt.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 3 , Issue 25 , July 1866 , pp. 293 - 296
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1866

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1 “This is well exemplified where a hill-side has been cultivated. Man, while he cultivated it, acted as the destroyer, and Rain only as a carvier to take away part of the soil that man had rooted up. If man ceases to cultivated that mountain side, Rain causes plants to grow,” &c. [Extract from MrKinahan's, G. H. Letter, Geol. Mag., Vol. III., No. 19, p. 46.—Edit.]Google Scholar