Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... the deposits near Zurich , the Rev. E. Hill for co - operation in visiting those of Eastern England , and Miss C. A. Raisin for reading the first proofs of this book . TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1. - EXISTING EVIDENCE CHAP . X PREFACE.
... the deposits near Zurich , the Rev. E. Hill for co - operation in visiting those of Eastern England , and Miss C. A. Raisin for reading the first proofs of this book . TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1. - EXISTING EVIDENCE CHAP . X PREFACE.
Pagina 110
... England . They have been recog- nised in Northern Germany , in the neighbourhood of the Baltic ; they are abundant also in parts of Scandi- navia , Finland , and Russia , and of North America . To quote from Professor J. Geikie's ...
... England . They have been recog- nised in Northern Germany , in the neighbourhood of the Baltic ; they are abundant also in parts of Scandi- navia , Finland , and Russia , and of North America . To quote from Professor J. Geikie's ...
Pagina 119
... England , but here also the evidence is less conclusive than in the central and northern regions . Among the glacial deposits of the lowlands , the most characteristic is a boulder clay . This con- tains numerous pieces of rock ...
... England , but here also the evidence is less conclusive than in the central and northern regions . Among the glacial deposits of the lowlands , the most characteristic is a boulder clay . This con- tains numerous pieces of rock ...
Pagina 122
... England , and that the former , in the neighbourhood of the coast , not seldom covers another mass of boulder clay . We must , however , remember that these deposits are not arranged with anything like the regularity of those belonging ...
... England , and that the former , in the neighbourhood of the coast , not seldom covers another mass of boulder clay . We must , however , remember that these deposits are not arranged with anything like the regularity of those belonging ...
Pagina 123
... England and Wales " ( 2nd edit . ) , where many refer- ences to original memoirs are given . Much information also is to be found in the " Memoirs of the Geological Survey , " though occasionally the facts of Nature and the opinions of ...
... England and Wales " ( 2nd edit . ) , where many refer- ences to original memoirs are given . Much information also is to be found in the " Memoirs of the Geological Survey , " though occasionally the facts of Nature and the opinions of ...
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Alpine Alps amount angular basin beneath boulder clay breccias Britain Carboniferous chalk chap cliffs climate coast comparatively considerable crags débris descend direction distance district Drift Edition elevation England Eocene erratics feet above sea-level fragments Geol geologists Geology Geology of England glacial deposits Glacial Epoch glaciers Glen Roy granite Greenland ground height higher hills hypothesis Ice Age ice-sheet ice-streams inches indicate inland ice Irish Sea islands Jour lakes land land-ice latitude latter less lower lowlands Malaspina Glacier marine mass material melting miles Moel Tryfaen molluscs moraine mountain nearly neighbourhood névé northern Norway numerous Nunataks occasionally occur peaks pebbles precipitation present probably Professor Quart range region ridges rise river roches moutonnées sands and gravels Scotland shells side slope snow snow-line sometimes southern stones stratified streams striated subangular submergence surface temperature terminal moraine thickness tion traced upper valley Wales western yards
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Pagina 59 - It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains, whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountain summits, projected in many places several miles into the nea, and terminated in lofty perpendicular cliffs.