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IV.—Notes on some small Lake-basins in the Lepontine Alps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Rock-Basins have been getting out of favour of late. The “heckling” which they have suffered from my friend Mr. Marr tempts one to echo Betsy Prig's classic remark about Mrs. Harris. Mr. Brend, however, though “dealing faithfully” with them in the September number of the Geological Magazine, does permit one or two to exist on sufferance, so that I feel minded, were it only as an act of charity to these depreciated securities, to describe two or three examples in the Alps which I think must be true rock-basins.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1898

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page 15 note 2 I examined it in 1893.

page 16 note 1 I was there for some time last summer, and had already paid four short visits.

page 16 note 2 It is a few inches over 6,000 feet.

page 18 note 1 Professor Forel has kindly informed me that it is 2,000 mètres long, 500 mètres wide, and 60 mètresingreatest depth. I am indebted to him for the measurements of Lago Cadagno and Tom.

page 18 note 2 They belong to the group which for purposes of reference I have called the Upper Schist. They are described, as well as the geology of the Val Piora, in the Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., xlvi (1890), p. 199, etc.Google Scholar

page 19 note 1 Its area is given as 1,000 square métres, and it is said to be shallow. But I should think it would not be less than some 20 feet deep, and might be more.

page 19 note 2 The only sign of disturbance in the lake itself, several yards away from the shore, was clearly an upward flow, i.e. was produced by a strong spring in the bed of the lake.

page 19 note 3 I twice examined the surface of the water; on the second occasion (a very still day) I thought I detected a slight movement in some scum on the water.

page 19 note 4 Kauehwacke often has a shattered, almost rubbly aspect.

page 21 note 1 The slope, above Fiesso, begins of course just below the Lago Treniorgio, or nearly at 6,000 feet.

page 21 note 2 No doubt this has been subsequently cut down below the original level, the valley being a large one; the Val Canaria has been cut yet lower.

page 21 note 8 I believe I know of others than those mentioned in this paper, but, as I have not examined them since Mr. Marr's paper was published, will not refer to them.