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The Antiquity of Oceanic Basins

Nature volume 21, pages 587–588 (1880)Cite this article

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IT seems to have escaped Dr. Carpenter's notice1 that, in a Report en the results of the Deep-sea Dredgings of Mr. Pourtalès for 1866, 1867, 1868, Prof. Agassiz1 had already called attention to the probable great antiquity of the oceanic basins.

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  1. Lecture before the Royal Institution, January, 1880.

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    ALEXANDER AGASSIZ

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AGASSIZ, A. The Antiquity of Oceanic Basins. Nature 21, 587–588 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021587b0

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