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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