Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Geological Magazine, or Monthly Journal of Geology, Vol. 6: With Which Is Incorporated "the Geologist"; January December, 1899
F the paper on the recent geology of Sweden which has already appeared in the geological magazine1 is sound in argument (and I have not met anyone yet who has answered it), it follows that the views ordinarily current in regard to the glacial geology of Northern Europe will have to be greatly modified. Scandinavia is confessedly the great focus and centre of the phenomena which have been interpreted as glacial. From Scandinavia the most interesting and widely travelled of the erratics which are found in other parts of Europe have come, and if the drift of Northern and Central Europe were distributed by an ice sheet, then it is universally conceded that that ice-sheet must have culminated in Scandinavia and moved thence in various directions; but it seems to me that the analysis which I have attempted to give of the actual phenomena makes it difficult to attribute the most important of them to ice action at all.
It is perfectly plain, as every native geologist admits, and as is admitted by every geologist of note who has visited the country, that Scandinavia has been submerged in quite recent times to the extent Of at least 600 feet. The terraces, the raised beaches, the shell deposits, the stratified sands and gravels, etc., all unmistakably point to this conclusion as inevitable.
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