Abstract
FAILING any more direct answer to Sir J. D. Hooker's query (NATURE, vol. xxxiii. p. 79), perhaps, with your usual courtesy, you will allow me space for one or two brief notes. The map referred to, as it stands in “Climate and Time,” p. 449, is conjectural to a very large extent. If we are to take the relative closeness of the lines to indicate comparative depth and strength of the glacier-flow, the Baltic must have been, at the intensest period of glaciation, a glacier-filled valley, on an enormous scale, with the ice-stream passing out over the comparatively low, and then submerged, country of Schleswig-Holstein. Dr. Croll, to support a foregone conclusion, represents it thus, and then makes it bifurcate conjecturally about the Dogger Bank. One or two considerations, however, make Dr. Croll's conclusion less “inevitable” than he seems to imagine (p. 449).
Article PDF
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
IRVING, A. Scandinavian Ice-Flows. Nature 33, 129 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/033129a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/033129a0
Comments
By submitting a comment you agree to abide by our Terms and Community Guidelines. If you find something abusive or that does not comply with our terms or guidelines please flag it as inappropriate.