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 . o species of # c Rapporto sulle Ossa Fossili di Mardolce/ Palermo, On the Newer Deposits of Sicily. < Phil. Mag. for October, 1831, p. 1. X Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. 16, p. 99, 1860; and Paleeontological Memoirs/ voL 2, p. 548, 1868,§ Or more probably of animal charcoal for the sugar factories. In the rubble-drift at Chilton, nearOxford, the bones likewise retained a large pr
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 . o species of # c Rapporto sulle Ossa Fossili di Mardolce/ Palermo, On the Newer Deposits of Sicily. < Phil. Mag. for October, 1831, p. 1. X Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., vol. 16, p. 99, 1860; and Paleeontological Memoirs/ voL 2, p. 548, 1868,§ Or more probably of animal charcoal for the sugar factories. In the rubble-drift at Chilton, nearOxford, the bones likewise retained a large proportion (above 17 per cent.) of animal matter. 6 F 2 956 PROFESSOR J. PRESTWICH ON THE EVIDENCES OF A SUBMERGENCE Hippopotamus; amongst them were 300 astragali of that animal, Scika also col-lected 76 astragali for the Museum of Palermo, together with 14 jaws with teeth,besides numerous single teeth,* and specimens of almost all the bones of the bodybelonging to animals of all ages down to the foetus. The following diagram section(fig. 19) gives the chief features, as described by the above writers, It is not drawnto any scale* Fig. 19•—Bestored diagram section of the Cave of San Oiro (J«P.).. Church ofAn Ciio, WVAV \ ^ \ X \X M 1. Hippurite limestone* 2. Pliocene sands and marls* {Red clay, with angular blocks of limestone* passing down into reddishclay, with smaller fragments and some pebbles of limestone and \ 20 feet?quartz. (The latter may be derived from the sea-bed, e) , , .c. Sand, with sea^shells and corals (?) of recent species. The walls to some height above c were perforated by Lithodomi f ............. Ito 2 „ With respect to the position and condition of the bones, the evidence is says that the bones were without order, and those of the different animalswere mixed together, that they were broken, shattered, and dispersed in of the Elephant remains, he remarks that no entire tusks were found, andthat the fangs of the te
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