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1. Personal Observations on Terraces, and other proofs of Changes in the relative Level of Sea and Land in Scandinavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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In this paper were given descriptions of alluvial formations of a terassiform character in the valley of the Lir river, near Drammen, in Norway, and of similar objects in valleys near the foot of the Miösen lake. The author then described a remarkable terrace which runs for fully fourteen miles at one elevation along the upper part of the valley of the Logan, in the Dovre field. It is composed on the left side of the valley of water-laid sand, and is believed to be about 2150 feet above the level of the sea. On the Dovre field, several hundred feet higher, are morasses containing the remains of much greater trees than are now growing in that district, the highest vegetation of which is a dwarf birch; and Mr Chambers remarks, that when the terrace was on the sea-level this district would enjoy a temperature fit for the production of such large timber. Mr Chambers next described some remarkable terraces in the valleys near Trondhiem, and particularly the great terrace of erosion which overlooks that city at an elevation of 522 feet above the sea.

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Proceedings 1849-50
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1850

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