Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... Block on Ice - worn Rock Islet , Nerlungshavn , near Langesund , Norway 2. Scratched Stone from the Till of Boston 3. Section ( Diagrammatic ) of an Old Moraine , near Reiche- nau , Switzerland • 4. Section of Till , near Thalwyl , Lake ...
... Block on Ice - worn Rock Islet , Nerlungshavn , near Langesund , Norway 2. Scratched Stone from the Till of Boston 3. Section ( Diagrammatic ) of an Old Moraine , near Reiche- nau , Switzerland • 4. Section of Till , near Thalwyl , Lake ...
Pagina 5
... block , more headlong than the rest , closes its career by one vast leap which lands it out on the glacier some hundreds of feet away from the rocks ; but the majority fall on or near the edge , so that on this a mound of boulders ...
... block , more headlong than the rest , closes its career by one vast leap which lands it out on the glacier some hundreds of feet away from the rocks ; but the majority fall on or near the edge , so that on this a mound of boulders ...
Pagina 6
... 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 them melts less rapidly than the exposed surface of the glacier . Sometimes they ...
... 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 them melts less rapidly than the exposed surface of the glacier . Sometimes they ...
Pagina 7
... blocks which were swallowed up in the shal- lower fissures 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 ...
... blocks which were swallowed up in the shal- lower fissures 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 ...
Pagina 9
... blocks - sometimes many cubic yards in volume may be seen , as we have said , travelling down the glacier ; as it retreats , such blocks are occasionally stranded , either on the sloping flanks of the valley , or on some prominent ...
... blocks - sometimes many cubic yards in volume may be seen , as we have said , travelling down the glacier ; as it retreats , such blocks are occasionally stranded , either on the sloping flanks of the valley , or on some prominent ...
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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.