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...three lectures on the "Alps in the Great Ice Age" yesterday afternoon in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum. In this lecture, which dealt with "The Climatic Variations of the Ice Age," Professor Penck thoroughly discussed the means of discovering both the probable climate during the great glacial periods, and the length of time since these topographical phenomena were in existence...
...know, of course, the height at which snow exists in the present glacial systems. By studying "moraines"--physical relics left by glaciers below the snow line--it is possible to determine the height at which snow melted during the great ice ages. Thus we have a ready comparison between the climate today and that of these ancient times. In those days, we find that, except during the inter-glacial periods, the world was somewhat colder than at present. The earliest glacial movements, which we discover also by noticing the depths at which moraine is deposited, were less frequent than those...
Professor Penck will give the second lecture on "The Glacial Sculpture of the Alps" this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum. The lecture will be open to members of the University...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Alps in the Great Ice Age--Glacial Sculpture of the Alps," illustrated, Professor Albrecht Penck. Geological Lecture Room...
...second lecture on "The Glacial Sculpture in the Alps" will be given at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and the last of the series on Man and the Ice Age" will be on Wednesday afternoon at the same time...