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II.—Quaternary Changes of Levels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Warren Upham
Affiliation:
United States Geological Survey.

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The article by Prof. J. W. Spencer in the last May number of this Magazine brings together many evidences of high continental elevation of North America preceding the Pleistocene or Glacial period. Though Professor Spencer has not proceeded to interpret these observations as revealing in continental elevation the probable cause of the severely cold climate and accumulation of ice-sheets during the Glacial period, I believe that this is a legitimate conclusion, and that it strongly re-enforces the arguments long ago advanced by Lyell and Dana, and recently emphasized anew by Wallace.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1890

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