Word: glacial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Starting at sea level, the caravan slowly plodded through jungles of rich verdure and through luxuriant forests until the trees disappeared and they passed over glacial passes onto the flat barren plain of Tibet...
...Antevs, under a grant from the Shaler Memorial Fund for Research in Geology, has been investigating the glacial deposits of eastern North America. Previous to this Dr. Antevs made extensive research connected with the glacial deposits of Europe. Many of the results of these studies will be incorporated in his lectures...
...Physiography and Glacial Geology of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia", an illustrated lecture, will be delivered by Professor F. K. Mather tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...
...Czecho-Slovakia, workmen quarrying glacial silt for a brick company uncovered the family tomb of Aurignacian mammoth-hunters of 800 generations (20,000 years) ago. There were 12 adult skeletons and eight of children, reposing under a layer of stones (protection from beasts) within a mortuary chamber formed by walls of mammoths' bones. Mammoth lower jaws constituted one wall, shoulder blades a palisade opposite. It was the largest single collection of prehistoric human remains ever discovered, and admirably preserved...
...reminder that one half of the world is farther away from the sun than the other, came the news that at Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, glacial winds last week swept the streets, driving the thermometer down to 5° below zero...