WCP7072

Letter (WCP7072.8189)

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to produce deep lake-basins, and also to assume that no such rapid and local movements have recently occurred in any non glaciated region, — I say — give your proofs."! The thing is far too improbable to be accepted without proof!

Even in the cases of moraine dams2to lakes, — unless you can prove, by soundings & borings, that the moraine-stuff is as thick over the outlet as the lake is deep you have not disproved a rock-basin nor even rendered one improbable.

Believe me | yours very truly

Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

Percy F. Kendall F.G.S.

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Where glacially formed accumulation of debris prevents melt water leaving a valley.

Please cite as “WCP7072,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP7072