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The greater part of them have such a wall built across one end; and but for this masonry of the glacier, there would have been nothing to prevent their waters from flowing out into the plain at the breaking up of the ice-period.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

Rocky Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Caucasus, the few glaciers remaining from the great ice-period are insignificant in size.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

As soon as the cave-man had escaped the threatening dangers of the long and shivering ice-period, and had put his house in order, he began to make certain things which he thought beautiful, although they were of no earthly use to him in his fight with the wild animals of the jungle.

The Story of Mankind 1921

I believe I have read and compared all that has been written for and against the ice-period, and also upon the transportation of boulders, whether pushed along or carried by floods or gliding over slopes.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

Yet, trained as he was in glacial phenomena, even so cursory an observation satisfied him that in the southern, as in the northern hemisphere, the present glaciers are but a remnant of the ancient ice-period.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

I in no way reproach you, my dear friend, for the urgent desire expressed in all your letters, that your oldest friends should accept your comprehensive geological view of your ice-period.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

Indeed, some of his finest lectures on the ice-period were given at Penikese.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

These were, first, the fresh-water fauna of Brazil, of the greater interest to him, because of the work on the Brazilian Fishes, with which his scientific career had opened; and second, her glacial history, for he believed that even these latitudes must have been, to a greater or less degree, included in the ice-period.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

It was again impossible to decide, on such short observation, whether these effects were due to local glacial action, or whether they belonged to an earlier general ice-period.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

In this address he announced his conviction that a great ice-period, due to a temporary oscillation of the temperature of the globe, had covered the surface of the earth with a sheet of ice, extending at least from the north pole to Central Europe and Asia.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885