The Recognition of Meteorites and Ice Ages
Two important scientific questions that confronted 18th- and 19th-century naturalists were whether continental glaciation had occurred thousands of years earlier and whether extraterrestrial rocks occasionally fell to Earth. Eventual recognition of these hypotheses as real phenomena resulted from in...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.013.262 |