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Title: Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader
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Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
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572 CEXOZOIC EKA—AGE OF MAMMALS. Evidences of glaciers of this time are also found in the Vosges, in the Pyrenees, and other high mountains of Central Europe. During this time also Europe was probably connected with Africa by one or more highways, through the Mediterranean Sea. In Europe, as in America, there are evidences of a temporary re- treat and readvance of the ice-sheet—i. e., of two glacial and an inter- glacial period. 2. Epoch of Subsidence—Champlain.—Following the epoch of ele- vation was an epoch of subsidence, during which the same regions which
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Fig. 942.—Map of the British Isles and Norway, if subsided 1,200 to 2,000 Feet (after Lyell). The lower shaded portion was not touched by Drift. were before most elevated became now most depressed. It is believed that in Scotland the land was at least 2,000 feet below the present level. By this depression a great part of Northern Europe was sub- merged, and Great Britain was reduced to an archipelago of small

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