On the glacial origin of certain lakes in Switzerland, the Black Forest, Great Britain, Sweden, North America, and elsewhere

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Abstract
Erroneous Theories of the Transport of Alpine Blocks .—In the year 1859, in a series of papers by the members of the Alpine Club, I published a memoir in which I compared the old glaciers of North Wales with those of Switzerland; and in it, among other matters, I explained the glacial origin of certain rock-basins now holding lakes, on the watersheds and in the old glacier-valleys of both those countries; and in a later edition of the same memoir, published as a separate book, with additions, I extended these generalizations to many of the lakes in Sutherlandshire. In the same work I also expressed an opinion that the blocks of Monthey, in the valley of the Rhone, and the great erratic boulders that strew the southern flank of the Jura had been transported by icebergs derived from glaciers which descended in the Alpine valleys to the sea-level, during a period of submergence in which the low country that lies between the Jura and the Oberland was covered with erratic drift. There was nothing new in this latter opinion, for it had previously been held by several distinguished geologists, both English and continental. Since then I have twice revisited Switzerland, and have seen good reason to change my opinion respecting the cause of the transport of erratic blocks to Monthey and the Jura, and of debris not remodelled by rivers, &c., that lies scattered over the lowlands of Switzerland, or that borders, or lies in great mounds well out in, the
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Authors A. C. Ramsay
Journal american journal of science
Year 1863
DOI
10.2475/ajs.s2-35.105.324
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https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s2-35.105.324
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