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seeing that so eminent a glacialist as Professor
Forbes had failed to solve it.
On my second visit I have been more
presumptuous ; having come prepared to look for
certain things, I saw much that was not visible to
me before, and which, in like manner, evidently
escaped the attention of Professor Forbes.
I observed that the plateau of the Dovrefjeld is
not a hump, or rounded plain of bare rock, merely
covered with a skin of vegetable mould such
as carpets the slopes of its outlet A-alleys, and
some of the “ roches moutonnes ” (glacier-planed
rocks) of other parts of Norway. Instead of this,
it is covered with a peculiar deposit (varying in
depth from two or three inches to more than a
foot), which is neither an alluvial nor a marine
deposit, nor does it correspond with those usually
described as glacial. It is neither a terminal,
lateral, nor medial moraine ; it is neither boulder
clay nor till, but something for which I will
venture to coin a name, and call it “ glacier gravel ”
or “ boulder .sand,’’ as distinguished from boulder
clav.
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It differs from till by the absence of the matrix
of stiff clay. It differs from what is usually called
“ boulder clay ” by the absence of even a soft or
friable clay matrix. It differs from moraines by
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