Nouvelle Description Des Glaciers Des Alpes, De La Savoie, De Suisse Et D'italie, Volume 1 (French Edition)

The woodcutter matter-of-factly told him that the boulders had come from the Grimsel, a zone of granite some distance away. БЂњWhen I asked him how he thought that these stones had reached their location, he answered without hesitation: БЂThe Grimsel glacier transported them on both sides of the valley, because that glacier extended in the past as far as the town of Bern.БЂ™ БЂ«Charpentier was delighted. He had come to such a view himself, but when he raised the notion at scientific gatherings, it was dismissed. One of CharpentierБЂ™s closest friends was another Swiss naturalist, Louis Agassiz, who after some initial skepticism came to embrace, and eventually all but appropriate, the theory. Agassiz had studied under Cuvier in Paris and now held the post of Professor of Natural History at the College of Neuchцўtel in Switzerland. Another friend of AgassizБЂ™s, a botanist named Karl Schimper, was actually the first to coin the term ice age (in German Eiszeit), in 1837, and to propose that there was good evidence to show that ice had once lain heavily across not just the Swiss Alps, but over much of Europe, Asia, and North America ...»