b7 Agassiz of the Ice
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1 T or F: The Epic of Gilgamesh is a mythical tale of Gilgamesh's search for truth
in this reality.
2 T or F: An erratic is a natural dolmen or "perched" boulder,
block, rock, or stone, clearly out of the place of its origin.
3 T or F: Boulder train is the name of a railway service in Colorado’s Denver
mining district.
4 T or F: Von Buch a student of Werner at Freiberg became a staunch advocate for Neptunism
but later converted to Volcanism..
5 T or F: Saussure was a sherpa in the Himalayas.
6 T or F: The mammoth steppe accumulated blown in dust.
7 T or F: An ice sheet with a Fennoscandian (Finland and Scandinavian) center joined with
ice caps on northern Britain and Ireland.
8 T or F: Jura mountains of granite bear limestone erratics from the Alps,
9 T or F: Hutton and Saussure could agree on the origin of erratics.
10 T or F: Von Buch imagined that erratics had traveled like cannon balls hurled down
Alpine valleys.
11 T or F: Pierre Bot is a huge erratic block of gneiss on limestone of the Jura
Mountains.
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| Boulder train 076-03-01 076-03-02 076-03-03 076-03-04 |
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| Von Buch 076-04-01 076-04-02 076-04-03 076-04-04 |
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| Saussure 076-05-01 076-05-02 076-05-03 |
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| Mont Blanc 076-06-01 076-06-02 076-06-03 |
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| mammoth steppe 076-07-02 |
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| loessic grassland 076-08-01 |
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| Fennoscandian ice sheet 076-09-01 |
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| Geography of Switzerland 076-10-01 |
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| Alpine ice cap 076-11-01 |
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| Jura mountains, perched erratics 076-12-01 076-12-02 |
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| Lake Geneva 076-13-01 |
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| Lake Neuchâtel 076-14-01 |
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| Hutton, ice blocks sliding 076-15-01 |
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| Saussure, flood 076-16-01 |
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| Playfair, glaciers, see p.181 in: 076-01-01 |
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| Von Buch, erratics boulders 076-17-01 |
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| Erratic 076-18-01 076-18-02 076-18-03 |
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1 T or F: The baton for developing the Ice Age theory passed in turn from Perraudin to
Venetz to Charpentier to Agassiz.
2 T or F: Agassiz’s ice-age theory was further developed by d’Orbigny.
3 T or F: For Agassiz, species extinctions that separated epochs were the result of abrupt
times of Earth cooling.
4 T or F: Loess is fluviatile loam.
5 T or F: Murchison’s "drift" is a cold-water marine deposit.
6 T or F: Till is unstratified and outwash is stratified.
7 T or F: The Driftless Area of Wisconsin was cleared of covering drift by the passage of
glacial ice over it.
8 T or F: Agassiz studied glaciers at first hand beginning in 1836 and published his
findings in 1840.
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| Venetz 077-02-01 |
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| Charpentier 077-03-01 077-03-02 077-03-03 077-03-04 |
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| Agassiz 077-04-01 077-04-02 |
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| Glaciers, piedmont 077-05-01 |
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| D’Orbigny 077-06-01 |
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| Agassiz, species 077-07-01 077-07-02 |
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| Lyell, loess 077-08-01 077-08-02 |
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| Murchison, drift 077-09-01 |
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| Till 077-10-01 077-10-02 077-10-03 077-10-04 077-10-05 |
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| Geikie, 077-12-01 077-12-02 |
Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man, 1874 |
| Driftless Area SW Wisconsin 077-13-01 077-13-02 077-13-03 077-13-04 077-13-05 |
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| Agassiz 077-14-01 |
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| Aar glacier, Switzerland 077-15-01 077-15-02 |
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| Cahoot (stone-slab hut) 077-16-01 077-16-02 |
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| Agassiz, 077-17-01 077-17-02 077-17-03 077-17-04 |
Études Sur les Glaciers (Study on Glaciers) |
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1 T or F: Nansen at age 27 proved that Greenland is covered by an ice sheet by skiing (in
41 days) across it.
2 T or F: Zastrugi are sharp irregular grooves or ridges formed on a snow surface by wind
erosion and deposition.
3 T or F: The men that first sailed (early 1840s) right into the heart of the Arctic pack
ice
d’Urville, Ross, and Wilkes.
4 T or F: In the Antarctic, looming brings into view land below the horizon.
5 T or F: Agassiz’s "Ice Age" was induced from drift (as it became called)
being everywhere on striated bedrock.
6 T or F: Dawson claimed that so-called glacial striations record shoreline scour by
shells as sealevel had incrementally risen.
7 T or F: Recessional moraines are uniformitarian evidence of prolonged pauses in the
overall slow "retreat" (diminishing extent) of the glaciers at the end of the
Ice Age.
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| sastrugi 078-02-01 078-02-02 |
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| Antarctica 078-03-01 |
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| Belling- hausen, 1820 078-04-01 |
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| Amundsen 078-05-01 078-05-02 |
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| d’Urville, 1840 078-06-01 078-06-02 078-06-03 078-06-04 078-06-05 |
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| Terre Adelie 078-07-01 078-07-02 |
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| Ross 1841 078-08-01 078-08-02 078-08-03 078-08-04 |
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| Ross ice shelf 078-09-01 078-09-02 |
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| Wilkes 1842 078-10-01 078-10-02 078-10-03 |
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| Gurney, looming 078-11-01 078-11-02 |
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| Agassiz, diluvium on striated bedrock. 078-12-01 |
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| Dawson, glacial theory 078-13-01 078-13-02 |
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| Moraines 078-14-01 |
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| Recessional moraines 078-15-01 078-15-02 078-15-03 |
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| King, Whitney Glacier 078-16-01 078-16-02 078-16-03 |
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| Beaumont 078-17-01 |
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| Whitney 078-18-01 078-18-02 |
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| Yosemite Valley 078-19-01 |
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1 T or F: Beaumont and Muir agreed that Yosemite Valley was shaped by glacial action
operating over long periods of time.
2 T or F: Agassiz was killed when he fell from the Zoology building at Stanford University
during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
3 T or F: Bischoff is a type of Nile mud
4 T or F: Helix hispida, Pupa muscorum, and Helix nemoralis are marine
gastropods.
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| Yosemite Valley 079-02-01 |
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| Muir 079-03-01 079-03-02 |
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| Fairchild, hanging valleys 079-04-01 079-04-02 079-04-03 079-04-04 |
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| Jordan 079-05-01 |
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| Bischoff 079-06-01 |
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| Helix hispida 079-07-01 |
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| Pupa muscorum 079-08-01 079-08-02 |
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| Helix nemoralis 079-09-01 |