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II.—The Physical History of the Great Pleistocene Lake or Portugal2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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A Recent visit to Portugal has given me an opportunity of seeing the geological features of the neighbourhood of Lisbon and the Lower Tagus; and though of a somewhat cursory nature I venture to bring them before the Society, being supplemented by reference to the investigations of previous observers, and a study of the excellent geological maps which are in the library of this Society. I make no pretension to be an original explorer, but I hope to be able to show that there is a very interesting physical history, not hitherto written so far as I am able to discover, bringing down the account of the changes which have taken place from the Cretaceous period to the Recent, or Quaternary, epoch.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

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Read before the Geological Society, December 6th, 1905.

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