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THREE dates stand out as landmarks when a special revival of interest in Alpine glaciology occurred: namely, 1840, when Jean Agassiz published his “Eludes sur les Glaciers”; 1862, when Ramsay read his paper on the glacial origin of lakes to the Geological Society and Tyndall published his paper in the Philosophical Magazine, in which he advocated a glacial origin for the Alpine valleys; and 1900, about which time Peach described the Alpine trough-valleys, and W. M. Davis emphasised the glacial overdeepening of the Ticino Valley, and when, a little later, Penck and Brueckner completed their monumental work on the ice age in the Alps.
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Ice and the Formation of Alpine Scenery*. Nature 129, 443 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129443a0
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