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Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, Corestone Boulders and the Two-Stage or ETCH Concept of Landform Development
Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, Corestone Boulders and the Two-Stage or ETCH Concept of Landform Development
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Though not especially interested in landforms, Jean-Henri Hassenfratz (1755-1827) in 1791 envisaged a two-stage origin for some boulders that he had chanced on near Aumont in the southern Massif Central. His novel explanation had an immediate, though unacknowledged and not unchallenged, impact. It initiated the two-stage or etch interpretation of landforms and all that that implies.
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