The Changing World of the Ice Age

Abstract

IN this book Prof. Daly has reprinted the Silliman Lectures for 1934 which he delivered at Yale University to “an audience with a varying knowledge of the facts and principles of geology”. But to make the book of greater value to more serious students, the lectures have been somewhat expanded. The author had a threefold aim: (1) to picture the remarkable effects of the Pleistocene glaciations and deglaciations upon the sea-level all over the world; (2) to illustrate some of the no less extraordinary changes in the geography of the regions that were heavily glaciated during the Ice Age; (3) to discuss the behaviour of the solid earth when it was loaded with the ice-caps and then relieved of those loads by melting and evaporation.

The Changing World of the Ice Age

By Prof. Reginald Aldworth Daly. (Yale University: Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures.) Pp. xx + 271 + 8 plates. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1934.) 22s. 6d. net.