Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... difficulty , to judge from my own experience , often attends the student . They seem to be written , in most cases , more with a view to advocating some particular interpretation of the facts than of describ- ing the facts themselves ...
... difficulty , to judge from my own experience , often attends the student . They seem to be written , in most cases , more with a view to advocating some particular interpretation of the facts than of describ- ing the facts themselves ...
Pagina 85
... difficulty arises as to the origin of the Lake of Zug , 650 feet in depth . Did the aforesaid offshoot descend from the top of the " Hollow Lane , " and thus acquire , on a slope little more than 200 feet vertical , a sufficient ...
... difficulty arises as to the origin of the Lake of Zug , 650 feet in depth . Did the aforesaid offshoot descend from the top of the " Hollow Lane , " and thus acquire , on a slope little more than 200 feet vertical , a sufficient ...
Pagina 87
... difficulty of the two or more basins which are often noticed in the bed of a lake is thus answered . Commonly these variations in the depth only amount to a few yards vertical , and are very probably due , as M. Delebecque has pointed ...
... difficulty of the two or more basins which are often noticed in the bed of a lake is thus answered . Commonly these variations in the depth only amount to a few yards vertical , and are very probably due , as M. Delebecque has pointed ...
Pagina 97
... resulting only in the development of local glaciers in some of the valleys . At first sight this explanation seems to be the most G simple and probable , but it is not without difficulties RELATION OF GLACIERS TO LAKE BASINS 97.
... resulting only in the development of local glaciers in some of the valleys . At first sight this explanation seems to be the most G simple and probable , but it is not without difficulties RELATION OF GLACIERS TO LAKE BASINS 97.
Pagina 98
Thomas George Bonney. simple and probable , but it is not without difficulties , of which the following are the most important : - ( 1. ) If these beaches have been formed by the sea , it is difficult to understand why they do not occur ...
Thomas George Bonney. simple and probable , but it is not without difficulties , of which the following are the most important : - ( 1. ) If these beaches have been formed by the sea , it is difficult to understand why they do not occur ...
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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.