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On 24 June, 1837 Louis Agassiz stunned the learned members of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences by addressing them, in his role as President, not with an anticipated lecture on fossil fishes, but with a passionate presentation on the existence of Ice Ages. No one was convinced. He even dragged the reluctant members of the Society up into the mountains to see the evidence for themselves, pointing out the scars on the hard rocks left by glaciation (which some of those present tried to explain away as having been produced by the wheels of passing carriages). Extraordinarily, it would take a further 140 years before the Ice Age theory was fully proved and understood. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)551.792Natural sciences and mathematics Earth sciences & geology Geology, Hydrology Meteorology Historical geology Quaternary; Postpliocene; GlacialLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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