Foot steps of the ancient Great Glacier of North America [electronic resource] : a long lost document of a revolution in 19th century geological theory / Harold W. Borns, Kirk Allen Maasch, editors.
Borns, H. W. (Harold W.), author.; Maasch, Kirk A. (Kirk Allen), author.
2015
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Title Foot steps of the ancient Great Glacier of North America [electronic resource] : a long lost document of a revolution in 19th century geological theory / Harold W. Borns, Kirk Allen Maasch, editors.
ISBN 9783319132006 electronic book
3319132008 electronic book
9783319131993
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13200-6
Published Cham : Springer, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps, portraits.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-13200-6 doi
Call Number GB2412
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.312
Summary 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.
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Added Author Borns, H. W. (Harold W.), author.
Maasch, Kirk A. (Kirk Allen), author.
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Part I John Kimball DeLaski
Biographical sketch
The manuscript
Part II The Ancient Great Glacier of North America
Preface
The phenomena of boulder drift
Carver?s Harbor
Research on rocks
Vinalhaven and North Haven
Camden Hills and Mount Desert
Mount Desert to Holden
Bangor to the Piscataquis Valley
Mount Katahdin
The inescapable conclusion
A large glacier
Evidence from all over North America
Boulder drift theories
Objection to iceberg theory continued
An astronomical theory
Astronomical theory continued
Theory of mutable axis of the earth
Continental upheaval and subsidence
The changeable relations of land and water
Supposed cause of the cold period
Geologic record since the Devonian
The climate cools
A glacial time
Duration of the glacial age
End of the glacial age
On the motion of glaciers
Purpose of the glacier
Late-glacial cold-water marine shells of Maine and adjacent regions.

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