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Side 150
... glacier agency . The main facts mentioned by Mr Geikie the Convener quite admits , viz . , that most of the lakes are " occupying hollows in the till and other superficial deposits " - that the axis of these hollows is , generally ...
... glacier agency . The main facts mentioned by Mr Geikie the Convener quite admits , viz . , that most of the lakes are " occupying hollows in the till and other superficial deposits " - that the axis of these hollows is , generally ...
Side 151
... to the ice in a sea , if one prevailed , about 1000 feet above the present level . If glaciers ever existed among the hills of Harris , their effects must have been confined to their own valleys . Though of Edinburgh , Session 1878-79 .
... to the ice in a sea , if one prevailed , about 1000 feet above the present level . If glaciers ever existed among the hills of Harris , their effects must have been confined to their own valleys . Though of Edinburgh , Session 1878-79 .
Side 152
... glaciers , he not only admits but maintains , that " the ice , with which the mountain valleys of Harris and the south were filled , had no share whatever in the glaciation of the northern part of the island , extending from the base of ...
... glaciers , he not only admits but maintains , that " the ice , with which the mountain valleys of Harris and the south were filled , had no share whatever in the glaciation of the northern part of the island , extending from the base of ...
Side 155
... glacier action . On this Airde point there were numerous boulders , chiefly of grey granite . They may have been pushed down the glen by a glacier ; - indeed it seemed the most probable supposition . But they might have been floated up ...
... glacier action . On this Airde point there were numerous boulders , chiefly of grey granite . They may have been pushed down the glen by a glacier ; - indeed it seemed the most probable supposition . But they might have been floated up ...
Side 157
... glacier down from Loch Awe or Dalmally , was not overlooked . But if any glacier of Edinburgh , Session 1878-79 . 157.
... glacier down from Loch Awe or Dalmally , was not overlooked . But if any glacier of Edinburgh , Session 1878-79 . 157.
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