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So far as I know, it has not been suggested that a comparatively small elevation of the crust of the earth would cause a glacial state in the elevated part. The roughness of an ordinary terrestrial globe, representing an elevation that might be compared with the thickness of letter-paper, would correspond with an elevation of the crust of the earth that even in the tropics would cause perpetual snow. A few thousand years would be sufficient to cause a sufficient elevation without any catastrophic hypothesis.
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RYLAND, T. The Cause of an Ice Age. Nature 53, 389 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053389a0
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