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A VERY interesting “special report” has just been issued by the Department of Mines of Victoria, giving an account of the remarkable evidences of glaciation observed at a locality about twenty miles southeast of Sandhurst, and about the same distance north of the great Dividing Range.1 The report is illustrated by a map and sections on a large scale, and by eight excellent photographic prints, showing the character of the deposit on the surface and in railway cuttings, the striated bed rock, and the striated and grooved blocks and boulders, so that full materials are given for the conclusion that we have here an undoubted glacial deposit. A brief summary of this report will therefore be interesting to all students of the phenomena and problems of terrestrial glaciation.
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"Notes on the Glacial Conglomerate, Wild Duck Creek." By E. J. Dunn, F.G.S. (R. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1892.)
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WALLACE, A. An Ancient Glacial Epoch in Australia. Nature 47, 55–56 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047055c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/047055c0