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Ice Age
John Gribbin
John R. Gribbin
Mary Gribbin
出版
Penguin Books
, 2002
主題
Science / General
Science / Earth Sciences / Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
Science / Global Warming & Climate Change
ISBN
0141007303
9780141007304
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Bnd7QgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
On 24 June 1837, Louis Agassiz stunned the learned members of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences by addressing them, in his role as President, not with an anticipated lecture on fossil fishes, but with a passionate presentation on the existence of Ice Ages. No one was convinced. He even dragged the reluctant members of the Society up into the mountains to see the evidence for themselves, pointing out the scars on the hard rocks left by glaciation (which some of those present tried to explain away as having been produced by the wheels of passing carriages). Extraordinarily, it would take a further 140 years before the Ice Age theory was fully proved and understood.