Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina xiii
... Greenland 9. Malaspina Glacier 41 69 108 • 10. The Kames of Maine and South - Eastern New Hampshire II . Section of Kame near Dover , New Hampshire 12. Drumlins in the Vicinity of Boston 13. Drumlins in Goffstown , New Hampshire 14 ...
... Greenland 9. Malaspina Glacier 41 69 108 • 10. The Kames of Maine and South - Eastern New Hampshire II . Section of Kame near Dover , New Hampshire 12. Drumlins in the Vicinity of Boston 13. Drumlins in Goffstown , New Hampshire 14 ...
Pagina 38
... Greenland and the ad- jacent parts of the Arctic region . Here the results which , in more southern countries , are subjects for conjecture , should be actual matters of fact . Of late years much has been learned about Greenland itself ...
... Greenland and the ad- jacent parts of the Arctic region . Here the results which , in more southern countries , are subjects for conjecture , should be actual matters of fact . Of late years much has been learned about Greenland itself ...
Pagina 39
... Greenland , while there are few glaciers of importance in Grinnell Land on the opposite side of Smith Sound.1 The other islands north of the American continent , though some are of a fair size and rise to a considerable elevation ...
... Greenland , while there are few glaciers of importance in Grinnell Land on the opposite side of Smith Sound.1 The other islands north of the American continent , though some are of a fair size and rise to a considerable elevation ...
Pagina 40
... Greenland coast , but also those , both small and large , to the north of the American continent ; yet in none is an ice - sheet found ; this seems to require a land mass of almost continental dimensions . The more boldly the district ...
... Greenland coast , but also those , both small and large , to the north of the American continent ; yet in none is an ice - sheet found ; this seems to require a land mass of almost continental dimensions . The more boldly the district ...
Pagina 41
... Greenland . The arrow - points mark the margin of the ice - field . Scoresby Sd . Lady Franklin Bay GRINNELL LAND Kane Basin HALL LAND WASHINGTON LAND Humboldt Glacier Pt.Foulke HAYES Smith Cape Alexander C.Dudley Digges Lancaster Sd ...
... Greenland . The arrow - points mark the margin of the ice - field . Scoresby Sd . Lady Franklin Bay GRINNELL LAND Kane Basin HALL LAND WASHINGTON LAND Humboldt Glacier Pt.Foulke HAYES Smith Cape Alexander C.Dudley Digges Lancaster Sd ...
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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.