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Études sur les glaciers
work by Agassiz
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development of glaciology
- In Earth sciences: Louis Agassiz and the ice age
…and in 1840 published his Études sur les glaciers (“Studies of Glaciers”), demonstrating that Alpine glaciers had been far more extensive in the past. That same year he visited the British Isles in the company of Buckland and extended the glacial doctrine to Scotland, northern England, and Ireland. In 1846…
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