The ice age in North America and its bearing upon the antiquity of man5th edwith many new maps and illus., enland rewritten to incorporate the facts that bring it up to date, with chapters on Lake Agassiz and the Probable cause of glaciation . • , . ^ .74-; Fig. 34—Sea margin of roriiell Glacier, Greenland. (Tarr). I. Pig. —tJlacier in North Greenland, showing the upper strata of Ice rolling over likebreakers. (Photographed hy Chamlwrlin). CHAPTER y. GLACIERS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. Before iiiially concentrating our attention upon theancient glaciated area of North America, it will be
The ice age in North America and its bearing upon the antiquity of man5th edwith many new maps and illus., enland rewritten to incorporate the facts that bring it up to date, with chapters on Lake Agassiz and the Probable cause of glaciation . • , . ^ .74-; Fig. 34—Sea margin of roriiell Glacier, Greenland. (Tarr). I. Pig. —tJlacier in North Greenland, showing the upper strata of Ice rolling over likebreakers. (Photographed hy Chamlwrlin). CHAPTER y. GLACIERS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD. Before iiiially concentrating our attention upon theancient glaciated area of North America, it will be protit-able to take a glance at existing glaciers in other parts ofthe world. As is well known, glaciers still envelop theisland of Spitzbergen and linger in the mountains of Nor-way and Sweden, of central Europe, and of southern glaciers also come down to the sea-level in Patagonia,and ap]jear higher up upon the mountains of southein mountains of New Zealand * likewise contain numerousgroups of glaciers nearly as extensive as those of the so-called Antarctic Continent would seem to be coveredwith one vast sheet of ice pressing outward, and breaking oftinto immense icebergs. The glaciers of the Alps have been so frequently describedthat only a few words need be devoted to them he
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