Geological sketches, at home and abroad . nds and the craggy, scarped out-lines of the mountain crests. Tins was especially markedalong the northern side of the Glommens Fjord, where theice-worn rocks form a distinct zone along the side of the 1 Although I use the word mountains, there is no definite systemof ridges ; on the contrary, these fjords must be regarded as indenta-tions along >he edge of a great tableland, of which the average level mayrange from 3000 to 4000 feet above the sea, and which serves as theplatform on which the wide snow-fields lie. See Norway and i/sGlaciers, pp. 190
Geological sketches, at home and abroad . nds and the craggy, scarped out-lines of the mountain crests. Tins was especially markedalong the northern side of the Glommens Fjord, where theice-worn rocks form a distinct zone along the side of the 1 Although I use the word mountains, there is no definite systemof ridges ; on the contrary, these fjords must be regarded as indenta-tions along >he edge of a great tableland, of which the average level mayrange from 3000 to 4000 feet above the sea, and which serves as theplatform on which the wide snow-fields lie. See Norway and i/sGlaciers, pp. 190 232. vi] OLD GLACIERS OF NORWAY AND SCOTLAND. 117 rough, craggy hills. To the north of Melovaer this ice-worn belt was estimated to rise about 200 feet above thesea. Its smoothed rocks are abundantly rent along linesof joint nnd other divisional planes; their ice-worn aspectmust thus be imperceptibly fading away. The rough rocksabove them sometimes show traces of smoothed surfaces,as if they too had suffered from an older glaciation, of. Fig. 8.—Map of the Neighbourhood of the Holands Fjord (Munch). which the records are now all but obliterated. The line ofdivision between the belt of rocks which have been smoothedby ice, and those which have been roughened and scarpedby atmospheric waste, slopes gently upward in the direc-tion of the central snow-fields of the interior. While atMeldvaer it seemed to rise only about 200 feet above thesea; at Fondalen, twenty-five or thirty miles inland, itmounts to a height of fully 1500 feet. A tract of bare iiS GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES. [vi hills, lying between the Glommens and the Holands Fjords,and rising eastward into the snow-covered tableland, is wellsmoothed in the direction of these fjords. In short, thewhole of the broad depression between the two fjords hasbeen filled with ice, moving steadily downwards from thesnow-fields to the sea. It was interesting to watch, on every little islet andpromontory under which we passed, even the same
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