On the Evidences of a Submergence of Western Europe, and of the Mediterranean Coasts, at the Close of the Glacial or So-Called Post-Glacial Period, and Immediately Preceding the Neolithic or Recent Period . Scale of O*?10025pr /metre. m^. > Mammoth age. 1. Recent alluvium. 2. Yellow clay and light grey earth, with angular fragments of limestone, containing at 8, Human sepulchral bones, and at H, debris of repasts and industrial works of (paleolithic) Man ; D, flagstoneshutting the sepulture; U, hearth; a, 6, fragments of clays from Bed 3, eroded at the time of de-position of ISTo. 2 (Argile
On the Evidences of a Submergence of Western Europe, and of the Mediterranean Coasts, at the Close of the Glacial or So-Called Post-Glacial Period, and Immediately Preceding the Neolithic or Recent Period . Scale of O*?10025pr /metre. m^. > Mammoth age. 1. Recent alluvium. 2. Yellow clay and light grey earth, with angular fragments of limestone, containing at 8, Human sepulchral bones, and at H, debris of repasts and industrial works of (paleolithic) Man ; D, flagstoneshutting the sepulture; U, hearth; a, 6, fragments of clays from Bed 3, eroded at the time of de-position of ISTo. 2 (Argile a blocaux; Reindeer age).8. Stratified argilo-arenaceous deposits (fluviatile); 3a, reddish yellow clay; 3b, seamof gravel; 3c, grey clay alternating with yellow sands 4. Rolled pebbles derived from the Ardennes (fluviatile) 5. Greenish quartzose sands, with traces of peat 6. Red clay in veins. JK, rock. (Bed JSTo. 2 corresponds with our Rabble-drift, and Nos. 3 and 4 with our fluviatile valley-drifts.) this section these clay fragments, a and b, for it shows, as I have had occasion tonote everywhere with the Bubble-drift, that the movement has been from abovedownwards, and that it has been of such short duration that substances
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