Bravais, Auguste (of the Bravais lattices), "Rapport sur un Memoire de M.A. Bravais relatif aux lignes d'ancien niveau de la mer dans le Finmark", a long article in the weekly issue of Comptes Rendus des seances de l'Academie des Sciences, 31 October, 1842 occupying pp 817-849 in the issue of pp (813)-859. Also an article by Augustin Cauchy and L. Moser (one of the 1842 papers on Thermography). Extracted from a larger bound volume. Good copy. $95
"The first written account of raised shorelines north of the arctic tree line in Finnmark was made by the French physicist Auguste Bravais, who participated in the French-Scandinavian La Recherche Expedition 1838–40 (Bravais 1842). He measured and documented that the ancient shorelines were not horizontal, but inclined landwards, an observation that eventually became an essential piece of evidence to the theory of glacial isostasy." --"Holocene relative sea-level changes and deglaciation chronology in Finnmark, northern Norway", Anders Romundset, pg 2). ("The outer coast of Finnmark in northern Norway is where the former Fennoscandian and Barents Sea ice sheets coalesced...")
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