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The Distribution of Scandinavian Boulders in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In the following pages the writer has attempted to collate the records of boulders of Scandinavian origin which are scattered through many publications. The lists of boulders in Table C of this paper are an amplified version of similar lists drawn up by T. Sheppard in 1895, and, in addition, lists of percentages of various types of boulders are shown in Tables A and B, those in A having been already recorded, while those in B are original. From a study of the statistics set out below the writer has ventured to make certain suggestions with regard to the debated question of the extension of a Scandinavian ice-sheet over Britain.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1926

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page 449 note 6 The majority of boulders recorded in this paper were collected from gravel pits in operation or from arable land where there would be little likelihood of human transport. In the discussion on this paper A. E. Salter drew attention to the rounded character of the small boulders of rhomb porphyry.

page 449 note 7 The quartz-porphyry identified as Dalecarlian by Professor Sjögren is in Rastall and Romanes' later paper (1909) stated to be not Scandinavian, and is later identified in Whealler's paper (1921) as a Scottish dyke-rock of Old Red Sandstone age.

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