Adolf Morlot

the Measure of Quarternary Time

by

Leonard G Wilson

Eastern end of Lake Geneva

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Geological section of the Tinière valleyin Lubbock, Scenery of Switzerland, 1896

Clarens Section

Glacial clay containing limestone blocks

Alluvium containing rounded pebbles

Beginning of railway cut at Villeneuve through the southern half of the Tinière cone.

Railway cut through Tinière conecompleted in 1860

Diagrammatic section throughTinière cone, showing Roman (Iron),

Bronze, and Stone Age levels

Adolf Morlot1820 - 1867

Sir Charles Lyell1797 - 1875

Older and higher Tinière coneabove and behind the modern cone