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A CAREFUL study of the conditions of land height during the earlier stages of the Quaternary glacial period seems to show that the earth was then less oblate, i.e. the north and south polar regions stood higher than now, to the extent of as much as 10,000 ft. in places, while the equatorial regions stood lower, by some 500 ft. The spreading of ice-sheets from these high lands may well have been the initial cause of the cooling which produced the Glacial epoch.
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BROOKS, C. Tidal Friction and Ice Ages. Nature 94, 254 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094254a0
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