Crossword-Solution: DETRITAL 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Edinb." Volume XVI., page 395, 1847.) in 1847 upheld the view that the ledges represent the shore-lines of lakes which were imprisoned in the valleys by dams of detrital material left in the glens during a submergence of 3,000 feet, at the close of the Glacial period.

From an earlier biographer we quote the following: “Some essential facts must be dug from out the past where they lie embedded in the detrital chronicles of the race.

According to him, the land emerged during a slow and uniform upward movement, like that now experienced throughout a large part of Sweden and Finland; but there were certain pauses in the upheaving process, at which times the waters of the sea remained stationary for so many centuries as to allow of the accumulation of an extraordinary quantity of detrital matter, and the excavation, at many points immediately above the sea-level, of deep notches and bare cliffs in the hard and solid rock.

The river supply of detrital sediment has not been very extensively investigated, although the quantities involved may be found with comparative ease and accuracy.

The fact is, the deposited detrital sediments around the continents occupy an area small when contrasted with the vast stretches of the land.