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I.—The Glacial Controversy in New Zealand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. T. Trechmann
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The controversy which has arisen in recent years in New Zealand regarding the problem of the Pleistocene glaciation of that country resolves itself into the two following main questions:—

1. Was there any glaciation in the North Island?

2. Was there an ice-sheet covering the South Island?

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 6 , June 1917 , pp. 241 - 245
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1917

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References

page 241 note 1 “The Glaciation of New Zealand”: Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xlii, pp. 334–48, 1909.Google Scholar

page 241 note 2 “The Great Ice Age of New Zealand”: Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xlii, pp. 589–612 and 575–588, 1909.Google Scholar

page 241 note 3 Geology of New Zealand, 1910, p. 182.Google Scholar

page 241 note 4 Ibid., 1912, p. 202.

page 241 note 5 Ibid., 1912, p. 203.

page 241 note 6 “Botanical Evidence against Recent Glaciation of New Zealand”: Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xlii, pp. 348–53, 1909.Google Scholar

page 242 note 1 Geology of New Zealand, 1910, p. 183.Google Scholar

page 242 note 2 Ibid., 1910, p. 205.

page 242 note 3 Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xlviii (N.S.), pp. 135–7, 1915.Google Scholar