On the Glaciation of the Arctic and Subarctic Regions Visited by the United States Steamer Corwin in the Year 1881.

On the Glaciation of the Arctic and Subarctic Regions Visited by the United States Steamer Corwin in the Year 1881.

Authors

John Muir

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Kimes Entry Number

162

Original Date

1-1-1884

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

Muir outlines the extent of glaciation on the Pacific Coast from the Sierra Nevada north, and also on the several major islands visited. He concludes ""that the basins of Bering Sea and Strait and of the adjacent portion of the Arctic Ocean are simply those portions of the bed of ice-sheet which were eroded to a moderate depth beneath the level of the sea, and over which the ocean waters were gradually extended as the ice-sheet was withdrawn, thus separating the continents of Asia and America at the close of the Glacial period."" See also: no. 163; no. 341, v. 7, pp. 255-[280]; no. 347, pp. 235-[258].

Publication

Hooper, Calvin L., Report of the U.S. Steamer Thomas Corwin in the Arctic Ocean, 1881. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884

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pp. 135-147

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Treasury Dept. document no. 601. [ 148] pp., 30 cm. Blue buckram with gilt-stamped title on front cover. Illus

On the Glaciation of the Arctic and Subarctic Regions Visited by the United States Steamer Corwin in the Year 1881.

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