Notice sur les systèmes des montagnes

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Notice sur les systèmes des montagnes

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In his work Notice sur les systèmes des montagnes (1852; “Review of Mountain Systems”), he summarized his theories on the origin of mountain ranges, attributing them to cataclysmic upheavals caused by the slow cooling and shrinking of Earth.
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