GLACIER WORK IN N.Z.
In the 1 course' of his lecture on “Tlie
Glacjal Period arid/ age of Man,” livered Christchurch,. Mr Denton said: —“ If they looked up the Tasman glacier they, would see a- river' of : ice; which obeyed the same laws as water, though moyirig very'much slower*. Whenthey. went to Greenland they found,- the country covered-; withijjico; which was rasping the L face ot the - country, down in its great march. It went towards 'Baffin’s' Bay* whfere it became icebergs, and thus the oceaii wafc ‘Strewn with, the icej/rom, the'very centre Greenland., S3p when_ they came to look at, the countries which in. the;-past (had ; beeh - subjected' to the same effect they fonhd the same circurnstanceis existifag. ( .There was now no question that 'it the,, ti.me, of the . glacial epoch .Great Britain, and, Europe, except perhaps;, the Sonfcb, was - covered' with ice. i Nor was New Zealand exempt from the same agency in past ages.
At Lake Tepako there, ; was a , great cavity worn out of the solid.stock, and, so also was the case I witli.re§ppct tpmapy other IjiKesTh 'New Zealand. Glaciers moved over the face, of the .country, grinding.off the clay and taking it-but into the ocean, thus raising up the land and forming the very clay he had traced from ihyercafgiU 'to ptiwst<^urob.*|..,.._
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Patea Mail, 29 March 1882, Page 3
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