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I AM much obliged to my friend Prof. Alex. Agassiz for reminding me that his distinguished father, when reporting on the deep-sea dredgings carried on by the United States Coast Survey in 1866–68, explicitly endorsed the views previously put forth by Prof. Dana (to whom, however, he made no reference) as to the geological antiquity of the American Continent and the probable determination of the general outlines of the present Continental elevations and Oceanic depressions at the very beginning of the formation of inequalities upon the Earth's surface.
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CARPENTER, W. The Antiquity of Oceanic Basins. Nature 21, 609–610 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021609c0
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