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AT the Toronto meeting of the British Association the numerous papers bearing on the glaciation of the North American continent were of exceptional interest to the British student of glacial geology, inasmuch as they brought prominently to mind the methods adopted by the Canadian and American glacialists, which differ in many respects from those to which we have become accustomed on this side of the Atlantic.
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An admirable summary of the work of Spencer, Gilbert, and others in elucidating the history of this great body of water will be found in a paper by Mr. Warren Upham on "Glacial Lakes in Canada," Bull. Geol. Soc. of Am., vol. ii. (1891) pp. 243–276.
"Modification of the Great Lakes by Earth Movement," U.S. Nat. Geographic Mag., vol. viii., September 1897, p. 233 (see NATURE, December 30, 1897)
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L., G. Recent Papers on Glaciation. Nature 57, 571–573 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057571a0
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