V.—The Most Recent Changes of Level and their Teaching. Part I. The Raised Beaches

1894 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 257-263
Author(s):  
Henry H. Howorth
Keyword(s):  
Principles Of Geology ◽  
Raised Beaches

There are signs accumulating everywhere that the views so logically pressed to their conclusion by Hutton and Playfair, and by a great catena of geologists, since the appearance of the first edition of Lyell's “Principles of Geology,” have received a certain check; and no one can read the works of the great Continental geologists without seeing that there is a tendency to reconsider the position, and to hark back to the views of another school of teachers.

V.—A Note on the Torbay Raised Beaches and on the Detached Blocks trawled in the English Channel

1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 405-408
Author(s):  
A. R. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Importance ◽  
English Channel ◽  
The South ◽  
Important Paper ◽  
Coast Line ◽  
Raised Beaches

In Professor Prestwich's important paper on the Raised Beaches of the South of England the following passage occurs: “In Torbay there are small portions of a Raised Beach near Paignton…” As on the strength of this statement the line of Raised Beaches is carried in the map round the extreme present limits of Torbay, and the hitherto universally accepted doctrine, that Raised Beaches do not occur in the softer parts of the coast-line, is thus controverted, the assertion is one of considerable importance.

X.—Geological Notes on the Stubendorff Mountains, West Spitsbergen

1942 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-129
Author(s):  
W. B. Harland
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Metamorphic Rocks ◽  
Northern Side ◽  
Principal Work ◽  
West Spitsbergen ◽  
Raised Beaches

The Cambridge Spitsbergen Expedition, 1938 (Polar Record No. 17, p. 4), was led by L. H. McCabe for intensive geomorphological work in the Campbell Range at the head of Billen Bay, Ice Fjord. The principal work on nivation and corrie erosion (McCabe, 1939) was supplemented by topographical and geological survey, while some detailed investigations were made on the raised beaches and “soil polygons.” During this work a party of three crossed the ice divide by sledge to East Fjord, Wijde Bay, and spent ten days working from the northern side of the Stubendorff Glacier. The Stubendorff Mountains in this region were chosen for comparison of corrie erosion on account of their contrasting geological constitution. They are carved out of tough folded metamorphic rocks while the Campbell Range is formed of softer horizontal Carboniferous rocks.

scholarly journals Die interglazialen marinen Strände und der Aufbau des antarktischen Inlandeises

1965 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Paul Woldstedt
Keyword(s):  
Ocean Level ◽  
Raised Beaches

Abstract. The interglacial marine beaches (Sicilian, Milazzian etc.) are mostly explained as signs of ancient higher ocean levels. But where we can prove the height of ancient ocean levels, this is not very different from the present one. The ancient beaches cannot be explained by sinking of the ocean level, but only by rise of the continents. Thus they are really „raised beaches".

scholarly journals The History and Principles of Geology, and its Aim (Continued)

1896 ◽  
Vol 30 (352) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Hartzell,
Keyword(s):  
Principles Of Geology

Pre-LGM open-water conditions south of the Drygalski Ice Tongue, Ross Sea, Antarctica

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Furio Finocchiaro ◽  
Carlo Baroni ◽  
Ester Colizza ◽  
Roberta Ivaldi
Keyword(s):  
Ross Sea ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Core ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Terra Nova Bay ◽  
Insoluble Organic Matter ◽  
Victoria Land ◽  
Marine Isotope Stage 3 ◽  
Raised Beaches

AbstractA marine sediment core collected from the Nordenskjold Basin, to the south of the Drygalski Ice Tongue, provides new sedimentological and chronological data for reconstructing the Pleistocene glacial history and palaeoenvironmental evolution of Victoria Land. The core consists of an over consolidated biogenic mud covered with glacial diamicton; Holocene diatomaceous mud lies on top of the sequence. Radiocarbon dates of the acid insoluble organic matter indicate a pre-Last Glacial Maximum age (>24kyr) for the biogenic mud at the base of the sequence. From this we can presume that at least this portion of the western Ross Sea was deglaciated during Marine Isotope Stage 3 and enjoyed open marine conditions. Our results are consistent with recent findings of pre-Holocene raised beaches at Cape Ross and in the Terra Nova Bay area.

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