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WE may all thank Mr. Alfred Wallace for putting together so concisely the main arguments on which the glacial theory of the origin of all lake basins has had a wide acceptance. My time is just now so occupied with “earth movements” of another kind that I am unable to marshal all the arguments on the other side. But I shall try to put the main points as clearly as can.
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ARGYLL Origin of Lake Basins. Nature 47, 485–486 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047485c0
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