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II.—Pleistocene Climatic Changes1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Warren Upham
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The most interesting and difficult climatic problem presented in all the geologic record is that of its latest period, immediately preceding the present, to discover the causes, first, of the accumulation, and later, of the rapid final melting of its vast sheets of land-ice. The fossil floras of Greenland and Spitzbergen indicate that those far northern latitudes enjoyed a temperate climate in the Miocene period; and, from the absence of glacial drift through the great series of Tertiary and Mesozoic formations, we infer that climates as mild as those of the present day had prevailed during long eras before the Ice-age.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 8 , August 1894, pp. 340 - 349
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1894

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Presented at the World's Congress on Geology, auxiliary with the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, August 26th, 1893.

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