land-glaciers

Updated: May 3, 2025

Buckland, as having been an independent centre of the dispersion of erratics great glaciers, long since extinct, having radiated from the Snowdonian heights in Carnarvonshire, through seven principal valleys towards as many points of the compass, carrying with them large stony fragments, and grooving the subjacent rocks in as many directions. Besides this evidence of land-glaciers, Mr.

Sir Charles Lyell - The Student's Elements of Geology