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II.—On the Glaciation of the Navis Valley in North Tirol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Alfred P. Young
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In a previous paper it was shown that one prominent topographical feature of the Tarntal district, the great cirque called the ‘Grübl’,. could be explained as the effect of erosion by a short icetongue which formed when the snow-line persisted for a time at about 2400 metres above sea-level. The basin-shaped hollow of the Upper Tarntal was held to be due to another stand of the snow-limit at 2650 metres. It remains to be seen whether these conclusions are supported by evidence of a similar nature collected over a wider area.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 7 , Issue 6 , June 1910 , pp. 244 - 258
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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