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" ... by which extensive fields of ice were first formed upon the sea, and large glaciers upon the land. As very lofty mountains in moderate latitudes, and masses of land and water in Arctic or Antarctic regions, are now essentially the seats of glaciers... "
Siluria: The History of the Oldest Known Rocks Containing Organic Remains ... - Page 456
by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison - 1854 - 523 pages
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 57

Science - 1854 - 414 pages
...and water in Arctic or Antarctic regions, are now essentially the seats of glaciers and icebergs ; so we know that these bodies alone have the power...rocks bears on its surface the signs of having been winterworn, or rounded by aqueous or atmospheric agency ; the great blocks of the later cold period,...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 57

Geology - 1854 - 414 pages
...regions, are now essentially the seats of glaciers and icebergs ; so we know that these bodies alune have the power of transporting huge erratic blocks...icebergs. Now, of the translation of such blocks we have VOL. LVII. NO. CXIV. — OCTOBER 1854. X no evidence whatever in any former geological period ! On...
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The North British review

1854 - 632 pages
...regions, are now essentially the seats of glaciers and icerafts; so we know that these bodies nlone have the power of transporting huge, erratic blocks...distances by land, or for hundreds of miles over the sea on floating icebergs. Now, of the translation of such blocks, we have no evidence whatever in any former...
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