Abstract
THE Geological Society of America has recently published an extremely interesting review and summary of the recent work and opinions of specialists on the Pleistocene, by Dr. H. F. Osborn and Dr. C. A. Reeds. The chronology and changes of level are fully discussed, and we are invited to consider the evidence in favour of changes in sea-level depending upon the amount of water withdrawn as ice. It is improbable that the views of Depéret, in particular, will be accepted as they stand; but it must be admitted that the glacial periods produced some world-wide changes of level, and the question how great these were becomes an extremely interesting one.
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COCKERELL, T. Porto Santo in Pleistocene Times. Nature 111, 464 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111464a0
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