Geological Sketches At Home And Abroad: At Home And Abroad
Geological Sketches At Home And Abroad: At Home And Abroad
Archibald Geikie
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One of its latest great revolutions was a submergence towards the west, which, extending from the coasts of Ireland to the north of Nor- way, has given rise to some of the most distinctive features Fig. 7. — Ice- worn boises of gneiss and perched blocks, coast of Sutherland. North of that part of Europe. No one can attentively compare the maps of the land with the charts of the sea-bottom in the region between the headlands of Connaught and the North Cape, without being convinced that the endle...ss ramifying sea-lochs and fjords, kyles and sounds, were once Digitized by Google I.T4 GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES. [vi land-valleys. Each loch and fjord is the submerged part of a valley, of which we still see the upper portion above water, and the sunken rocks and skerries, islets and islands are all so many relics of the uneven surface of the old land before its submergence. The indented form of the coast- line of the west of Scotland and of Norway is not evidence of the unequal encroachment of the sea, as is often, per- haps generally, supposed, but is due to a general submerg- ence of the west side of the two countries, whereby the tides have been sent far inland, filling from side to side ancient valleys and lakes.
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