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Ice as an Excavator of Lakes and a Transporter of Boulders

Nature volume 48, pages 247–248 (1893)Cite this article

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I HAVE devoted a considerable space in a work I have recently published in which I have criticised the extreme glacial views of some writers to an issue which underlies a great deal of their reasoning, and which, it seems to me, it is absolutely necessary we should determine before we are entitled to make the deductions habitually made by them.

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HOWORTH, H. Ice as an Excavator of Lakes and a Transporter of Boulders. Nature 48, 247–248 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048247c0

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