Chapter XI—POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD, continued.—GLACIAL CONDITIONS.

Geographical Distribution, Form, and Characters of Glacial Drift. —

Fundamental Rocks, polished, grooved, and scratched. — Abrading and

striating Action of Glaciers. — Moraines, Erratic Blocks, and “Roches

Moutonnees”. — Alpine Blocks on the Jura. — Continental Ice of

Greenland. — Ancient Centres of the Dispersion of Erratics. —

Transportation of Drift by floating Icebergs. — Bed of the Sea furrowed

and polished by the running aground of floating Ice-islands.

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