Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II RECENT PERIOD—DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS—SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS
- CHAPTER III FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE RECENT PERIOD
- CHAPTER IV POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD: BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA IN BELGIAN CAVERNS
- CHAPTER V POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD: FOSSIL HUMAN SKULLS OF THE NEANDERTHAL AND ENGIS CAVES
- CHAPTER VI POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM AND CAVE DEPOSITS WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS
- CHAPTER VII PEAT AND POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME
- CHAPTER VIII POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME—concluded
- CHAPTER IX WORKS OF ART IN POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND
- CHAPTER X CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACE OF SEPULTURE OF THE POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD
- CHAPTER XI AGE OF HUMAN FOSSILS OF LE PUY IN CENTRAL FRANCE AND OF NATCHEZ ON THE MISSISSIPPI, DISCUSSED
- CHAPTER XII ANTIQUITY OF MAN RELATIVELY TO THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND TO THE EXISTING FAUNA AND FLORA
- CHAPTER XIII CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN'S APPEARANCE IN EUROPE
- CHAPTER XIV CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN'S APPEARANCE IN EUROPE—continued
- CHAPTER XV EXTINCT GLACIERS OF THE ALPS AND THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL RELATION TO THE HUMAN PERIOD
- CHAPTER XVI HUMAN REMAINS IN THE LOESS, AND THEIR PROBABLE AGE
- CHAPTER XVII POST-GLACIAL DISLOCATIONS AND FOLDINGS OF CRETACEOUS AND DRIFT STRATA IN THE ISLAND OF MÖEN, IN DENMARK
- CHAPTER XVIII THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA
- CHAPTER XIX RECAPITULATION OF GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF MAN'S ANTIQUITY
- CHAPTER XX THEORIES OF PROGRESSION AND TRANSMUTATION
- CHAPTER XXI ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTION
- CHAPTER XXII OBJECTIONS TO THE HYPOTHESIS OF TRANSMUTATION CONSIDERED
- CHAPTER XXIII ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGES AND SPECIES COMPARED
- CHAPTER XXIV BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN, AND HIS PLACE IN THE CREATION
- INDEX
CHAPTER XVII - POST-GLACIAL DISLOCATIONS AND FOLDINGS OF CRETACEOUS AND DRIFT STRATA IN THE ISLAND OF MÖEN, IN DENMARK
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II RECENT PERIOD—DANISH PEAT AND SHELL MOUNDS—SWISS LAKE DWELLINGS
- CHAPTER III FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AND WORKS OF ART OF THE RECENT PERIOD
- CHAPTER IV POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD: BONES OF MAN AND EXTINCT MAMMALIA IN BELGIAN CAVERNS
- CHAPTER V POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD: FOSSIL HUMAN SKULLS OF THE NEANDERTHAL AND ENGIS CAVES
- CHAPTER VI POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM AND CAVE DEPOSITS WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS
- CHAPTER VII PEAT AND POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME
- CHAPTER VIII POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM WITH FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF THE VALLEY OF THE SOMME—concluded
- CHAPTER IX WORKS OF ART IN POST-PLIOCENE ALLUVIUM OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND
- CHAPTER X CAVERN DEPOSITS, AND PLACE OF SEPULTURE OF THE POST-PLIOCENE PERIOD
- CHAPTER XI AGE OF HUMAN FOSSILS OF LE PUY IN CENTRAL FRANCE AND OF NATCHEZ ON THE MISSISSIPPI, DISCUSSED
- CHAPTER XII ANTIQUITY OF MAN RELATIVELY TO THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND TO THE EXISTING FAUNA AND FLORA
- CHAPTER XIII CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN'S APPEARANCE IN EUROPE
- CHAPTER XIV CHRONOLOGICAL RELATIONS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF MAN'S APPEARANCE IN EUROPE—continued
- CHAPTER XV EXTINCT GLACIERS OF THE ALPS AND THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL RELATION TO THE HUMAN PERIOD
- CHAPTER XVI HUMAN REMAINS IN THE LOESS, AND THEIR PROBABLE AGE
- CHAPTER XVII POST-GLACIAL DISLOCATIONS AND FOLDINGS OF CRETACEOUS AND DRIFT STRATA IN THE ISLAND OF MÖEN, IN DENMARK
- CHAPTER XVIII THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN NORTH AMERICA
- CHAPTER XIX RECAPITULATION OF GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF MAN'S ANTIQUITY
- CHAPTER XX THEORIES OF PROGRESSION AND TRANSMUTATION
- CHAPTER XXI ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY VARIATION AND NATURAL SELECTION
- CHAPTER XXII OBJECTIONS TO THE HYPOTHESIS OF TRANSMUTATION CONSIDERED
- CHAPTER XXIII ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGES AND SPECIES COMPARED
- CHAPTER XXIV BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF TRANSMUTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF MAN, AND HIS PLACE IN THE CREATION
- INDEX
Summary
IN the preceding chapters I have endeavoured to show that the study of the successive phases of the glacial period in Europe, and the enduring marks which they have left on many of the solid rocks and on the character of the superficial drift, are of great assistance in enabling us to appreciate the vast lapse of ages which are comprised in the postpliocene epoch. They enlarge at the same time our conception of the antiquity, not only of the living species of animals and plants, but of their present geographical distribution, and throw light on the chronological relations of these species to the earliest date yet ascertained for the existence of the human race. That date, it will be seen, is very remote if compared to the times of history and tradition, yet very modern if contrasted with the length of time during which all the living testacea, and even many of the mammalia, have inhabited the globe.
In order to render my account of the phenomena of the glacial epoch more complete, I shall describe in this chapter some other changes in physical geography, and in the internal structure of the earth's crust, which have happened in the post-pliocene period, because they differ in kind from any previously alluded to, and are of a class which were thought by the earlier geologists to belong exclusively to epochs anterior to the origin of the existing fauna and flora.
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- The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of ManWith Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation, pp. 341 - 350Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009