To Roderick Impey Murchison [before 30 May 1849]1
[Malvern]
I feel most entirely convinced that floating ice and glaciers produce effects so similar, that at present there is, in many cases, no means of distinguishing which formerly was the agent in scoring and polishing rocks. This difficulty of distinguishing the two actions struck me much in the lower parts of the Welsh valleys.2
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Summary
CD believes that floating ice and glaciers produce indistinguishable effects in actions such as scoring or polishing rocks.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1241A
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Malvern
- Source of text
- Murchison 1849, p. 67 n.
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1241A,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1241A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4