Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... already formed the subject of a volume in this series . A few of the illustrations are from my own rough sketches . For the photograph of the ice - worn rocks near the Grimsel I am indebted to my friend , Mr. J. Eccles , who took it ...
... already formed the subject of a volume in this series . A few of the illustrations are from my own rough sketches . For the photograph of the ice - worn rocks near the Grimsel I am indebted to my friend , Mr. J. Eccles , who took it ...
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... already formed at their sides , those at adjacent edges are combined.2 The solitary blocks also travel on with the ice . If they are flat in form , they become elevated on pedestals ; for they act as parasols , and so the ice beneath ...
... already formed at their sides , those at adjacent edges are combined.2 The solitary blocks also travel on with the ice . If they are flat in form , they become elevated on pedestals ; for they act as parasols , and so the ice beneath ...
Pagina 11
... already stated , are engulfed in crevasses , and in some cases ultimately become embedded in the ice like currants in a cake . Their amount obviously depends partly on the quantity of surface moraine , partly on the number and depth of ...
... already stated , are engulfed in crevasses , and in some cases ultimately become embedded in the ice like currants in a cake . Their amount obviously depends partly on the quantity of surface moraine , partly on the number and depth of ...
Pagina 19
... already mentioned , may be found ; as , for instance , the great block of impure serpentine lying some distance from the end of the Schwarzberg glacier on the little plain near the Mattmark Hotel , which measures about 50 feet each way ...
... already mentioned , may be found ; as , for instance , the great block of impure serpentine lying some distance from the end of the Schwarzberg glacier on the little plain near the Mattmark Hotel , which measures about 50 feet each way ...
Pagina 21
... already said , is really worn away from the glacier bed ; for a not inconsiderable part either comes from the stones which help in the work , or has been washed by glacier streams from the surface of the ice , or has been swept be ...
... already said , is really worn away from the glacier bed ; for a not inconsiderable part either comes from the stones which help in the work , or has been washed by glacier streams from the surface of the ice , or has been swept be ...
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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.