Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... comparatively small . Hence , in order to keep the present one within the prescribed limits , it has been necessary to pass rapidly over some points of considerable interest , and to omit others which have a less direct connection with ...
... comparatively small . Hence , in order to keep the present one within the prescribed limits , it has been necessary to pass rapidly over some points of considerable interest , and to omit others which have a less direct connection with ...
Pagina 3
... comparatively level . It lies some two thousand feet below the snowy saddles , and above them the peaks tower up about as high again . Minor tributaries of frozen rivers issue from shallower re- cesses in the flanks of the peaks ...
... comparatively level . It lies some two thousand feet below the snowy saddles , and above them the peaks tower up about as high again . Minor tributaries of frozen rivers issue from shallower re- cesses in the flanks of the peaks ...
Pagina 5
... comparatively smooth and free from débris . Here and there , how- ever , a solitary boulder forms a black spot on its pure surface , or a small scatter of them trails forth from the foot of some rocky spur which is more prominent and ...
... comparatively smooth and free from débris . Here and there , how- ever , a solitary boulder forms a black spot on its pure surface , or a small scatter of them trails forth from the foot of some rocky spur which is more prominent and ...
Pagina 6
... comparatively un- broken flow , till it melts away under the increasing temperature and is transformed into a river . In this case the medial moraines are also continuous , and produce great mounds , almost comparable with rail- way ...
... comparatively un- broken flow , till it melts away under the increasing temperature and is transformed into a river . In this case the medial moraines are also continuous , and produce great mounds , almost comparable with rail- way ...
Pagina 7
... comparatively smooth stream . But the moraine has now lost its bank- like form , its materials have been scattered . Some of the blocks which were swallowed up in the shal- lower fissures appear again , in some cases disclosed by the ...
... comparatively smooth stream . But the moraine has now lost its bank- like form , its materials have been scattered . Some of the blocks which were swallowed up in the shal- lower fissures appear again , in some cases disclosed by 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.