Abstract
A year ago the writer published in this journal1 an article giving some preliminary results of studies on the continental shelf off the coasts of Norway. In a general map, a system of supposed submarine fault lines was shown — fault lines along which the Scandinavian land-mass is believed to have been lifted up in fairly recent, in Tertiary-Quaternary times. The existence of such lines is indicated by the presence of longitudinal channels, separating the area of banks from that of the rocky land-mass (with the »skjærgård« — skerries — area as its outermost zone) and by the way in which many transverse submarine valleys are abruptly cut off towards the land, along lines lying in the continuation of the said longitudinal channels. It was maintained that the transverse channels represent the outer, peripheral, remnants of old valleys, the inner parts of which cannot generally be traced any longer because of the uplift and
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