Man and the Glacial PeriodWright, G. Frederick (George Frederick)
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Man and the Glacial Period
Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick)
Glacial epoch; Prehistoric peoples
Falls, Minn 255
75. Argillite implement found by H. T. Cresson, 1887 259
76. General view of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut,
Claymont, Del. 260
77. Section across valley of the Somme 262
78. Mouth of Kent's Hole 268
79. Engis skull (reduced) 274
80. Comparison of forms of skulls 276
81. Skull of the Man of Spy 277
82. Tooth of Machairodus neogæus 281
83. Perfect tooth of an Elephas 281
84. Skull of Hyena spelæa 282
85. Celebrated skeleton of mammoth in St. Petersburg Museum 283
86. Molar tooth of mammoth 284
87. Tooth of Mastodon Americanus 284
88. Skeleton of Mastodon Americanus 286
89. Skeleton of Rhinoceros tichorhinus 287
90. Skull of cave-bear 287
91. Skeleton of the Irish elk 288
92. Musk-sheep 289
93. Reindeer 290
94. Section across Table Mountain, Tuolumne County, Cal. 294
95. Calaveras skull 295
96. Three views of Nampa image, drawn to scale 298
97. Map showing Pocatello, Nampa, and the valley of Snake River 299
98. Section across the channel of the Stanislaus River 300
99. Diagram showing effect of precession 308
100. Map showing course of currents in the Atlantic Ocean 314
101. Map showing how the land clusters about the north pole 319
102. Diagram showing oscillations of land-surface and ice-surface
during the Glacial epoch 323
103. Diagram of eccentricity and precession 333
104. Map of the Niagara River below the Falls 334
105. Section of strata along the Niagara Gorge 336
106. Map showing the recession of the Horseshoe Falls since 1842 338
107. Section of kettle-hole near Pomp's Pond, Andover, Mass. 345
108. Flint-flakes collected by Abbé Bourgeois 368
MAPS.
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Contour and glacial map of the British Isles _Frontispiece._
Map showing the glacial geology of the United States 66
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