Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations A Theory of Secular Changes of the Earth's Climate
CHAPTER XXIX.
EVIDENCE FROM BURIED RIVER CHANNELS OF A CONTINENTAL PERIOD IN BRITAIN.
Remarks on the Drift Deposits.—Examination of Drift by Borings.—Buried River Channel from Kilsyth to Grangemouth.—Channels not excavated by Sea nor by Ice.—Section of buried Channel at Grangemouth.—Mr. Milne Home’s Theory.—German Ocean dry Land.—Buried River Channel from Kilsyth to the Clyde.—Journal of Borings.—Marine Origin of the Drift Deposits.—Evidence of Inter-glacial Periods.—Oscillations of Sea-Level.—Other buried River Channels 466