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id: 32021
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  The Limits of the Palæarctic Region--Characteristic Features of the Palæarctic Region--Definition and Characteristic Groups of the Ethiopian Region


id: 32021
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  Special Adaptability of Seeds for Dispersal--Birds as Agents in the Dispersal of Seeds--Ocean Currents as Agents in Plant Dispersal--Dispersal


id: 32021
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  Facilities for Dispersal of Azorean Plants--Important Deduction from the Peculiarities of the Azorean Fauna


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id: 6335
title: The Antiquity of Man
author: Lyell, Charles, Sir
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  co-existence in ancient times of Man with certain species of mammalia new living species of shells obtained from different parts of the globe period to form so great a thickness as 20 feet. recent species, traced up to a height of 14 feet above the sea by Mr. W.J. Hamilton at Elie, on the southern coast of Fife, is doubtless -PLEISTOCENE PERIOD--BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA IN -PLEISTOCENE PERIOD--BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA IN It has naturally been asked, if Man co-existed with the extinct species the present valley, we discover an old extinct river-bed covered by no want of bones of mammalia belonging to extinct and living species. remains; but at some points marine shells of Recent species are said to the glacial period, 2000 feet below its present level, and other parts S. Fossil shells of recent species in the drift at this point.


id: 32021
title: Island Life; Or, The Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras
author: Wallace, Alfred Russel
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  Islands--Birds--Reptiles--Land-shells--Insects--Vegetation of the Sandwich Britain is Poor in Species--Peculiar British Birds---Fresh-water The species which are peculiar to the islands are indicated by both islands, the large proportion of peculiar species clearly indicating different species thus formed are confined to one or two of the islands The great difference presented by the birds of these islands as compared that the _peculiar_ species are allied to the plants of temperate America peculiar species of Trox, allied to South African forms; the other two species which are believed to form a peculiar family allied to the Oriental LIST OF THE SPECIES OF LAND BIRDS PECULIAR TO JAPAN. species being peculiar and confined each to a single island or small group, playfairii_ is peculiar to the islands, but there are allied species in the species appear to be peculiar to the islands. species in some of the peculiar New Zealand genera of plants, which seem


id: 33050
author: Harvey, Ruth Sawyer
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  [Illustration: ~Fig. 2.~ Geological map of Still River Valley.] and for the broad drift-filled valley at the mouth of Rocky River. feet from the east bank of Rocky River and about 1-3/4 miles north of [Illustration: ~Fig. 5.~ Rocky River Valley. the barrier which choked the Rocky River valley near its mouth and If Still River occupies the valley of a reversed stream, the following Drift forms the divide at the western end of Still River valley beyond valley to the west indicates that glacial deposits forced the river the Still River valley joins the Housatonic, and it indicates normal 2-1/4 miles north of Bethel, Still River crosses rock at a level of FEATURES OF STILL RIVER VALLEY WEST OF DANBURY FEATURES OF STILL RIVER VALLEY WEST OF DANBURY B. Till ridges on the western border of Still River Valley, south damming of river valleys by glacial deposits and (2) rock basins

title:
  Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30


id: 47119
title: Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches & Addresses Geological and Geographical
author: Geikie, James
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  north-east and south-west, as a great wall-like rampart. post-Silurian times the North-west Highlands probably existed as a true general trend of the great strath, which is south-west and north-east; of the old ice-plough--which was clearly from south-east to north-west. ice-sheet overflowed the Outer Hebrides from south-east to north-west, Islands where the evidence for the former action of a great ice-sheet river-valleys of Europe during the last great extension of glacier-ice. during an Ice Age great beds of frozen snow might have accumulated ice-sheet formerly covered a wide region in northern Europe are by the ice-sheets were dry regions in glacial times for the same Holland, pointing to a former ice-flow from north-east to south-west great accumulations of ice of the Glacial period may have displaced ice-sheets and great glaciers of our "third" glacial epoch were that the accumulation of ice over northern lands during glacial times


id: 50957
title: Man and the Glacial Period
author: Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick)
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  1. THE FORMS OF WATER IN CLOUDS AND RIVERS, ICE AND GLACIERS. of glacial ice, "of more than a hundred feet in height, formed the usual glacial ice at an elevation of thousands of feet above the sea. ice during the Glacial period, the surface of the rocks when freshly on the true glacial deposits of the valley, and extending down the river County, about ten miles north of the Ohio River, the glacial boundary about the time the ice of the Glacial period had reached its maximum produce the climatic conditions of the great Ice age of North America, we hundred feet; so that the glacial streams from the retreating ice-front between the Glacial period and the Great Lakes of North America, several Glacial period is found in the fact that the gravel deposit is continuous since that point of time in the Glacial period when the ice-barrier


