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IV.—The Ice Age in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Nils Olof Holst
Nils Olof Holst
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(late of the Geological Survey of Sweden)
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In the preceding paragraphs it has been shown that, after the inland ice had attained its southernmost limit and had spent its force, there commenced in Southern England the last of many stages of land depression. This carried with it a complete reversal: the temperature was raised, the periphery of the inland ice melted, its pressure was lessened, and a rapid rise of the land—the Mousterian elevation—introduced a great rise, to which the origin of the submerged forests bears witness. Nevertheless, the greatest part of the land depression persisted even after Mousterian time, and this explains the continuance of the melting and its increased rapidity, as well as the rapid northward withdrawal of the inland ice, which we shall soon consider.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 2 , Issue 11 , November 1915, pp. 504 - 513
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1915

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page 506 note 2 This oscillation has long been well known from Kuhgrund, quite close to the town of Lauenburg, and is there fairly clear. It may therefore be appropriately called “the Kuhgrund oscillation”.

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page 510 note 2 The mammoth skeleton which was found a few years ago at Borna, near Leipzig, together with Arctic plant-remains, belongs to the older part of the Intermediate zone.

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