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VI.—Glaciation of Eastern Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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A Paper on the Glaciation of Eastern Canada by the writer will shortly appear in the Canadian Record of Science, Montreal. It is intended to be a condensed statement of the principal facts hitherto collected on this interesting subject, with references to the reports and publications in which details are given. The following is an abstract which I send to the Geological Magazine in advance. The subject is regarded as an important one, and has occupied the attention of geologists for many years, as Eastern Canada is the battle ground, so to speak, of the advocates of the rival theories of continental glaciation and floating ice. The results thus far obtained from a somewhat careful study of its glacial phenomena, however, point to conclusions which are at variance with those held by extreme glacialists, and show that the theory of local glaciers upon the more elevated portions of the country and icebergs or floating ice striating the lower coastal areas during the Post-Tertiary submergence of these, as maintained by Sir William Dawson, will serve to explain all the observed phenomena.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1889

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References

page 212 note 1 Annual Report, Geol. Surv. Canada, 1885, vol. i. part GG.Google Scholar

page 212 note 2 Annual Report, Geol. Surv. Canada, 1886, parts I. and M.Google Scholar

page 213 note 1 Geology of Canada, 1863, pp. 890–92;Google Scholar Notes on the Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada, ‘ Canadian Naturalist,’ 1872; Annual Report, Geol. Surv. Canada, 1886, parts I. and M.Google Scholar

page 213 note 2 Transactions of the Roy. Soc. of Canada, 1882, sec. iv., paper on the Glaciation of Newfoundland.

page 214 note 1 Ibid. p. 68.