Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... appears not seldom to be tacitly assumed that they must have some particular significance , from which it follows , as an almost inevitable result , that the hypothesis of one writer becomes the theory of his successors . Accordingly ...
... appears not seldom to be tacitly assumed that they must have some particular significance , from which it follows , as an almost inevitable result , that the hypothesis of one writer becomes the theory of his successors . Accordingly ...
Pagina viii
... appear to me strong and where weak . In other words , I have endeavoured to follow the example of a judge rather than of an advocate ; that is , to sum up the evidence on each side of a case , and leave the verdict to the jury . Like ...
... appear to me strong and where weak . In other words , I have endeavoured to follow the example of a judge rather than of an advocate ; that is , to sum up the evidence on each side of a case , and leave the verdict to the jury . Like ...
Pagina 7
... appear again , in some cases disclosed by the melting of the ice , in others possibly 1 extruded by an upward motion in the mass itself . Thus , as a rule , the moraine , before reaching the end of the glacier , has become spread out ...
... appear again , in some cases disclosed by the melting of the ice , in others possibly 1 extruded by an upward motion in the mass itself . Thus , as a rule , the moraine , before reaching the end of the glacier , has become spread out ...
Pagina 20
... appears generally to be at least equal in volume to , and sometimes rather more than , the larger blocks ; in other cases it is not quite so much . We are not , however , obliged to suppose that all this mud has been extruded from ...
... appears generally to be at least equal in volume to , and sometimes rather more than , the larger blocks ; in other cases it is not quite so much . We are not , however , obliged to suppose that all this mud has been extruded from ...
Pagina 23
... appears now to have ceased . In some cases a length of more than a thousand yards of rock or débris has been exposed , which previously had been concealed beneath the ice , and the thickness of the glacier has been diminished in places ...
... appears now to have ceased . In some cases a length of more than a thousand yards of rock or débris has been exposed , which previously had been concealed beneath the ice , and the thickness of the glacier has been diminished in places ...
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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.