Ireland. Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Coyne, William P., ed · Dublin [etc.] Browne and Nolan, limited · leaf 45
as the receptacle for all the debris of the mountains. The glaciers brought down, especially in their lower layers, abundant blocks and pebbles picked up in their passage from the hills ; the streams running under the broad ice-sheet of the lowlands washed these materials along their courses, and… … FIG. X. GliANITK PINNACLES NEAK SLIEVK DONAHU. MOlKNE MOUNTAINS. TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY. 15 ice slowly melted, these channels were recorded byThe Eskers. chains of gravel, the well-known eskers, or green- hills, which rise in wonderful freshness abo^e thelevel of the plain.The ice-age left the…
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