This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...which carries the road between Tammerfors (Tampere) and Tavastehus (Hamennlinna) can be traced back far to northward towards the Baltic coast. Large boulders, only partially rounded, occur in it in places; in other sections it shows a coarse gravel; in places a delicate bedding is seen in its layers of sandy clay. Many ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...which carries the road between Tammerfors (Tampere) and Tavastehus (Hamennlinna) can be traced back far to northward towards the Baltic coast. Large boulders, only partially rounded, occur in it in places; in other sections it shows a coarse gravel; in places a delicate bedding is seen in its layers of sandy clay. Many Fennoscandian geologists, with De Geer and Sederholm, regard the eskers as protruded from the icecaves of a retreating glacier, and as formed in the sea which replaced the ice as it withdrew. The outermost end of an esker would thus be older than that farther up the country. It seems likely, however, that some of the Scandinavian eskers may have originated, as described on p. 125, in subglacial channels under stagnating ice, a view that was put forward by Hummel in Sweden and by Goodchild for the north of England. The recent history of the Fennoscandian surface is, then, one of severe glacial denudation and considerable glacial growth. The material removed from one district has been transferred, often with an ameliorating influence, to another. In some parts of Sweden the ground is simply covered with great boulders, heaped together, forming the coarsest type of moraine-material. Forest-trees manage to spring up in the interstices, and even to gain a root-hold on the stones. Foaming streams pour down among the crevices, as if still flowing from the melting ice. The author recalls a remark of G. De Geer, as he stood at the side of the Nordenskiold Glacier in Spitsbergen, where the ice was concealed by an immense slope of boulders shed from its surface and from its interior. "This," said De Geer, "is like a piece of Sweden." In other places the rock-floor lies bare, scoured and mammillated by the passage of continental ice. ...
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