"Glacial epoch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to deliver this lecture in person, it will be because I have to attend in Jersey to the excavation of a cave once occupied by men of the Glacial Epoch. Now these men knew how to keep a good fire burning within their primitive shelter; their skill in the chase provided them with a well-assorted larder; their fine strong teeth were such as to make short work of their meals; lastly, they were clever artisans and one may even ...
— Progress and History • Various
... swinging from the equator in the great warm current already formed, laved the then peninsula as it now laves the British Isles. The climate, as has been told, was almost as equable then as now, but with a certain crispness which was a heritage from the glacial epoch. It was a time to live in, and the two were merry on their ...
— The Story of Ab - A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man • Stanley Waterloo
... observed in the Amazonian Valley, to connect them with facts of a like character on the continent of North America, and to show how remarkably they correspond with facts accomplished during the same period in other parts of the world. While the glacial epoch itself has been very extensively studied in the last half-century, little attention has been paid to the results connected with the breaking up of the geological winter and the final disappearance of the ice. I believe that the true explanation of the presence of a large part of the superficial ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 • Various
... answer to the first, with which I am acquainted, is suggested by Dr. Abbott in chapter xxxii. of his "Primitive Industry." After showing that during the last glacial epoch there were no climatic conditions southward of the actual ice-cap which would preclude the existence of men, since they would gradually become used to the slow change (as did so many surviving forms of animal and vegetable life), Dr. Abbott further clears the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... | [B] Professor Ramsay has since shown that a glacial epoch | | probably occurred at the time of the Permian formation, | | which will more satisfactorily account for the comparative | | ...
— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace |
