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III.—Notes on the Features of Devon, Cornwall, and Galway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. H. Kinahan M.R.I.A., etc.
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During a brief visit in Devonshire, the main outlines of the features of the country appeared due to ice sculpture; nevertheless, the vast amount of denudation observable among the hills, evidently the result of meteoric abrasion, caused me to be cautious in coming to a conclusion too quickly, although Mr. G. W. Ormerod, F.G.S. (whose minute knowledge of the district is well known, and with whom I had the pleasure of examining a part of Devon), pointed out that in various places he had found glacier-formed drift. Having subsequently visited both Devon and Cornwall, although time did not permit of a minute search for ice-striæ, yet seemingly the first-formed impressions were correct, and, apparently, ice was the principal agent employed to carve out the main features of this portion of England.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 73 , July 1870 , pp. 310 - 314
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1870

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page 312 note 1 Attention was previously directed to these terraces in Clare and Galway. See Geological Magazine, Vol. III., 1866, p. 337, also “Memoirs, Geological Survey, Ireland,” Ex. sheets, 105, 115, 116, etc.

page 313 noet 1 A letter from Mr. G. W. Ormerod, printed at page 40 of the Geological Magazine for 1869, notices the traces of glacial action in South Devon, and states that probably for the words “Old Gravels,” used in his paper “On the Geology of the valleys of the upper part of the river Teign and its feeders” (Quart. Journ., vol. xiii., page 418), the word “Moraines” should be substituted.

page 313 note 2 Lug, a valley or gloomy depression among hills.

page 313 note 3 Maum or Mām, mountain pass, or connecting gap through a mountain ridge, derived from Mānn (Mawn), the inside part or hollow of the hand. (See article on Formation of Ravines, by author, in Geol. Mag. Vol. VI. 1869, p. 406.)