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John Muir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This notion was in stark contradiction to the accepted theory of the day, promulgated by Josiah Whitney (head of the California Geological Survey), which attributed the formation of the valley to a catastrophic earthquake. |
| | As Muir's ideas spread, Whitney would try to discredit Muir by branding him as an amateur and even an ignoramus. |
| | The premier geologist of the day, Louis Agassiz, however, saw merit in Muir's ideas, and lauded him as "the first man who has any adequate conception of glacial action." |
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