Geology . itain is thought to have been joined to the continent and to haveenjoyed a climate as mild as that of the present time. In the Saxonian(Kansan?) epoch, the ice attained its maximum development andcovered the area shown in Fig. 528. In the deposits of the interglacialHelvetian epoch, fossils denoting both cool and warm climates arefound, though perhaps not at the same horizon. The central Europeanflora of this stage indicates a climate milder than the present. In thePolandian epoch, the ice-sheet was less extensive than in the Saxonian,and the direction of ice movement was at variance
Geology . itain is thought to have been joined to the continent and to haveenjoyed a climate as mild as that of the present time. In the Saxonian(Kansan?) epoch, the ice attained its maximum development andcovered the area shown in Fig. 528. In the deposits of the interglacialHelvetian epoch, fossils denoting both cool and warm climates arefound, though perhaps not at the same horizon. The central Europeanflora of this stage indicates a climate milder than the present. In thePolandian epoch, the ice-sheet was less extensive than in the Saxonian,and the direction of ice movement was at variance with that of theearlier epoch in many places. The deposits of the Neudeckian inter-glacial epoch are partly marine and partly non-marine, and the faunas 1 Jour, of Geol., Vol. Ill, pp. 241-269. (22 GEOLOGY. are temperate, or at least not arctic. The ice of the MecklenburgianI arly Wisconsin?) stage developed the stoui moraines of North Ger-many. Ai this time the ice-sheet of Scandinavia was not continuous. with that of Great Britain. The Lower Forestian epoch is repre-sented by peat bogs and buried forests in northwestern Europe. Theland surface is thought to have been more extensive than now, andto have enjoyed a milder climate. The next glacial epoch, the Lower THE PLEISTOCENE OR GLACIAL PERIOD. 423 Turbarian, is represented by valley moraines and corrie moraines ,Jin the higher regions, and by various sorts of non-glacial depositselsewhere. During this epoch, glaciers locally descended to the sea o «J o / r*$W ^ / r^ . o H 7: » 3? %A^^^^v\ o fU H ^3f^\ * V. fb^ rv j o ;i^&i^L^C .-A V. \ o r-> ora oo o o O ^ 1/ j^^ o\ T A C^W^L \ \— /O s \V*j~—3 «J§ JJ ^*s &Lx+~*> o rvl m V7T—j^f** fO\ 4? T^jLsf )\ 8 O O OJ {S: ^>^^ A o o Ql o in Scotland. In the last glacial epoch, according to the above classi-fication, the ice was still more restricted. The preceding classification is not accepted by the German geolo- [24 GEOLOGY. gists, bo far as it applies ! Ger
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