Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains and the manners and customs of modern savages (1892)
Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 417
by the rivulets after heavy rains. Mr. Prestwich regards the difference of level between theupper gravels and the loess as a measure of the floods of thatperiod. If the gravel-beds were complete, this would nodoubt be the case; but it seems to me that the upper-levelgravels are mere fragments of an… … CHALK Diagram to show the Relations of the Loess and the Gravels. be deposited at lower and lower levels, the loess always fol-lowing it ;* thus we must not consider the loess as a distinctbed, but as one which was being formed during the same time,though never at the same place, as the beds of…
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