Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... they do in the same parallel on the opposite or Greenland coast of Hall Basin . " - Captain Feilden , Quart . Jour . Geol . Soc . , xxxiv . p . 567 . included within the annual isotherm of 32 ° F. , ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS 39.
... they do in the same parallel on the opposite or Greenland coast of Hall Basin . " - Captain Feilden , Quart . Jour . Geol . Soc . , xxxiv . p . 567 . included within the annual isotherm of 32 ° F. , ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS 39.
Pagina 50
... Geol . Soc . , xxvi . ( 1870 ) , p . 681. But farther south the rainfall , according to statements in J. Hann's Klimatologie , is much higher , reaching about 51 inches at Iviktut ( lat . 61 ° 12 ′ ) . large a part of the year , but ...
... Geol . Soc . , xxvi . ( 1870 ) , p . 681. But farther south the rainfall , according to statements in J. Hann's Klimatologie , is much higher , reaching about 51 inches at Iviktut ( lat . 61 ° 12 ′ ) . large a part of the year , but ...
Pagina 53
... on the summit showed that even there the air was not free from moisture . 2 Quart . Jour . Geol . Soc . , xxxiv . ( 1878 ) , p . 563 . these particular lines of erosion , but is continuous over ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS 53.
... on the summit showed that even there the air was not free from moisture . 2 Quart . Jour . Geol . Soc . , xxxiv . ( 1878 ) , p . 563 . these particular lines of erosion , but is continuous over ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS 53.
Pagina 57
... the latest movements have been in the opposite direction ; see , for cases of both , R. Brown , Quart . Jour . Geol . Soc . , xxvi . 1870 , p . 690 . also were often of enormous size ; their tabular sum- ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS ...
... the latest movements have been in the opposite direction ; see , for cases of both , R. Brown , Quart . Jour . Geol . Soc . , xxvi . 1870 , p . 690 . also were often of enormous size ; their tabular sum- ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS ...
Pagina 68
... water is continued for some hundreds of feet below it . 2 Thirteenth Annual Report of U.S. Geol . Survey ( 1891-92 ) , Part II . p . 7 . zontal plateau of ice . The general elevation of its 68 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... water is continued for some hundreds of feet below it . 2 Thirteenth Annual Report of U.S. Geol . Survey ( 1891-92 ) , Part II . p . 7 . zontal plateau of ice . The general elevation of its 68 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
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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.