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Glacial striae
Conclusion.
Striae and roches moutonnees show that glacier ice during an
early stage of the glaciation covered the entire area discussed.
In the south-eastern part of Streymoy and in the south-western
part of Eysturoy striae and roches moutonnees show a south-easterly
direction. In the south-eastern part of Eysturoy the ioe from Skála-
fjørður turned east and overflowed the rather high lying valleys
in the direction of Lambavík and Rituvík. It is most likely that the
ice from eastern Eysturoy passed east of Nólsoy.
The ice direction in eastern Havnardalur on Streymoy (sites 21,
22) is toward east, the ioe direction on Nólsoy (sites 1—5) toward
east-southeast, the ice, probably at an early stage of the glaciation,
overwhelwed Nólsoy flowing in an east-southeasterly direction.
The ice masses moving south^east from the highest part of Kald-
bakskambur passed Kaldbaksfjørður and the central area between
Kaldbaksfjørður and Tórshavn.
In Kaldbaksfjørður striae and roches moutonnees follow the fiord
direction, but between Sund and Hvítanes some of them turn south-
ward.
Acknowledgements.
The authors wish to thank Mr. Kristian Meitil for assistance in
the field work, Ms. Ragna Larsen for drawing the map, Ms. Elin
Súsanna Jacobsen and Ms. Patricia Conroy for improving the
English text.
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