II.—The Geology of South Georgia. 1. Notes on the Geology of South Georgia
- 1 January 1914
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 1 (2) , 53-59
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800137914
Abstract
The island of South Georgia is nine hundred miles S. 80° E. from the Falkland Islands. The coastline of the island is rock-bound and more or less precipitous, and there is neither open beach nor detrital flat on its outward margin. A narrow valley, a morainic flat, inside Cumberland Bay, runs up 4 miles to a glacier, and there are other patches of morainic material, marking the recession of the glaciers. Leith Harbour is one of these, and Elsie and Adventure harbours, originally enlarged by the ice into one channel, have been separated into two safe anchorages by morainic material.Keywords
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