Études sur les glaciers
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98. In 1836, Agassiz began studying the glaciers in his native Switzerland
and built a hut upon the Aar glacier to study its movements and structure. In
this important work, Agassiz demonstrated that Switzerland had at one time
been covered by one vast ice sheet similar to those in Greenland today.
