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HUMBOLDT and Rose, when descending the Irtysh between Boohtarminsk and Oostkamenogorsk, saw large masses of granite lying as if poured on the ends of metamorphosed slates (S. Rose, “Reise nach. d. Ural,” i. 610); an observation mentioned by Zirkel (“Petrogr.,” i. 506, 1866) as a famous one in relation to the age of the Altaic granite. No subsequent traveller appears to have succeeded in repealing that observation, because nobody could rediscover the actual place, which Humboldt and Rose did not define with much precision. Ritter, however, in referring to the subject, indicates the place as lying between two rivulets—Baryshnikof and Kozlovskaya.
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BIALOVESKI, A. Altaic Granites. Nature 39, 30–31 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/039030d0
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