SWEDISH GEOLOGIST.
INVESTIGATION OF LAKE BEDS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday. Dr C. C. Caldenius, lecturer in geology at Stockholm University, arrived at Auckland by the Wanganella this morning. He will investigate in the Rakaia River Valley the old lake bed deposits discovered and described by Professor Speight. "in an interview Dr. Caldenius explained that the Swedish geologist de Geer had found that stratification in lake bottoms gave an exact record year by year of deposits of river silt, and thus showed the actual character of the year year by year, well as a long period of climatic changes. This afforded valuable evidence in regard to glacial periods. He had come to New Zealand specially to investigate the Rakaia deposits, an opportunity ho had sought for many years. _________
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19065, 2 October 1933, Page 8
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