The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

.386SCANDINAVIA.still perfect fiords of the extreme north every possible shade of transition may bestudied. Here, if anywhere, the problem regarding the duration of the presentgeological epoch may possibly yet be solved. Here every still surviving glacialstream every ancient glacier bed, records in detail the alternating history of theclimate during the poriod subsequent to the glacial age. Every fiord thus becomesFig. 42.Silted Fiokds north of the Naze.Scale 1 : 240,000.E of G.Cof PCPsrromDepth under 110 Fathoms.Tepth over 110 Fathoms.Miles.a meteorological and geological apparatus, by the remains of its moraines, by thestrise of its rocky ribs, by the alluvia of its streams clearly indicating all thechanges that have taken place in the surroundings. Building on these andsimilar data, Theodore Kjerulf has already attempted to introduce a more exactchronology into the geological record.