@article{725408,
      recid = {725408},
      author = {Borns, H. W. and Maasch, Kirk A.},
      title = {Foot steps of the ancient Great Glacier of North America a  long lost document of a revolution in 19th century  geological theory / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Dr. John K. DeLaski practiced medicine in the Penobscot  Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with  keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led  to his conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the  highest hills, filled all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to  the east and west and probably was part of a greater  continental glacier. He published these observations and  inferences in numerous local newspapers and magazines, as  well as the American Journal of Science. His work put him  on the ℓ́ℓteamℓ́ℓ of Benjamin Silliman, James D. Dana and  Louis Agassiz, all advocates for glaciation as the regional  land shaping force as opposed to that of the Biblical  Deluge, a major scientific conflict of the day both in  North America and Europe. Agassiz and other prominent  naturalists incorporated DeLaskiℓ́ℓs observations into  their own presentations, often without giving him credit.  Published now for the first time, DeLaskiℓ́ℓs summary work  presents a holistic discussion of the controversy in which  he presents his critical observations of surficial geology  in Maine, southern New England and New Brunswick, Canada  and concludes that these depositional and erosional  features must be of glacial origin. All this was done while  most ℓ́ℓnaturalistsℓ́ℓ still advocated the Biblical Flood  to explain the major components of surficial geology in  North America and abroad.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/725408},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13200-6},
}