[CD] "Beskrifning. till geol. Kartbl. Trolleholm": _Sveriges Geologiska
Undersökning_, Ser. Aa., Nr. 87.
[CE] "Om de äldre baltiska isströmmen i södra Sverige": _Geolog.
Förening. i Stockholm Förhandl._, Bd. x., p. 157.
There are certain other facts that may lead us to doubt whether in the
glacial phenomena of the Baltic coast-lands we have not the evidence
of more than two glacial epochs. Three, and even four, boulder-clays
have been observed in east and west Prussia. They are separated, the
one from the other, by extensive aqueous deposits, which are sometimes
fossiliferous. Moreover, the boulder-clays in question have been
followed continuously over considerable areas. It is quite possible,
of course, that all those boulder-clays may be the product of one
epoch, laid down during more or less considerable oscillations of an
ice-sheet. In this view of the case the intercalated aqueous deposits
would indicate temporary retreats, while the boulder-clays would
represent successive re-advances of one and the same _mer de glace_. On
the other hand, it is equally possible, if not more probable, that the
boulder-clays and intercalated beds are evidence of so many separate
glacial and interglacial epochs. We cannot yet say which is the true
explanation of the facts. But these being as they are, we may doubt if
German glacialists are justified in so confidently maintaining that
their lower and upper diluvial accumulations are the products of the
"first" and "second" glacial epochs. Indeed, as I shall show presently,
the upper diluvium of north Germany and Finland cannot represent the
second glacial epoch of other parts of Europe.
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