Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... BASINS AND THEIR RELATION TO GLACIERS -THE PARALLEL ROADS OF GLENROY- ESKERS , ETC. II . ICE - WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DEPOSITS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE ? THE III . ICE - WORK IN EUROPE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD · PART III ...
... BASINS AND THEIR RELATION TO GLACIERS -THE PARALLEL ROADS OF GLENROY- ESKERS , ETC. II . ICE - WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DEPOSITS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE ? THE III . ICE - WORK IN EUROPE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD · PART III ...
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... ice - streams glide slowly forth , forming the Great Aletsch Glacier , the largest in the Alps . Such a hidden group of glaciers is far from rare in the great mountain chains . To speak of the 3 Alps alone , the basins of the Gorner and ...
... ice - streams glide slowly forth , forming the Great Aletsch Glacier , the largest in the Alps . Such a hidden group of glaciers is far from rare in the great mountain chains . To speak of the 3 Alps alone , the basins of the Gorner and ...
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Thomas George Bonney. Alps alone , the basins of the Gorner and the Fee Glaciers present a certain resemblance to that ... basin from the snow and ice of the actual peaks . Above this rift the solidified water is motionless , for it is ...
Thomas George Bonney. Alps alone , the basins of the Gorner and the Fee Glaciers present a certain resemblance to that ... basin from the snow and ice of the actual peaks . Above this rift the solidified water is motionless , for it is ...
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... basin , for at this elevation . rain is not common . So the glacier is born , so it is nourished . I have described its birthplace , I have dwelt on its beginning in some little detail , because in the pages which follow it will be ...
... basin , for at this elevation . rain is not common . So the glacier is born , so it is nourished . I have described its birthplace , I have dwelt on its beginning in some little detail , because in the pages which follow it will be ...
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... basin on the land . But the course of the main stream of this drainage system is often cut short . If a crevasse opens across its path , the water plunges into the abyss and strikes on the rocks beneath . As the glacier advances , the ...
... basin on the land . But the course of the main stream of this drainage system is often cut short . If a crevasse opens across its path , the water plunges into the abyss and strikes on the rocks beneath . As the glacier advances , the ...
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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.