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IN his letter in NATURE of October 23, Mr. A. S. Barnes says: “The high proportion of high-angle scars in the Tertiary flints... suggests that the Tertiary flaking was due to soil movement under pressure arising from solifluxion, foundering, or ice-action”. But I think most geologists would agree that these three factors (or at any rate the first and third) were far more active in Pleistocene than in Tertiary times. Why have they failed to produce any comparable effects in the later period? It is an old question, but not less cogent on that account.
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Barnes, A. S., l'Anthropologie, 48, 221 (1938)
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BURY, H. High-Angle Edge Flaking of Flint. Nature 152, 664 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152664a0
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