Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina vii
... erratics consists of certain materials , has a certain structure , and stands in certain relations to other deposits . These are facts , and their bearing on the question of its origin - whether it be the ground - moraine of an vii ...
... erratics consists of certain materials , has a certain structure , and stands in certain relations to other deposits . These are facts , and their bearing on the question of its origin - whether it be the ground - moraine of an vii ...
Pagina xiii
... 116 117 to face page 120 15. Typical Section of Till in Seattle , Washington State . 16. Erratics in Glacial Drift 17. Supposed Moraine between Speeton and Flamborough xiii 125 128 0 134 FIG . 18. Section in Mr. Green's Pit , N.E..
... 116 117 to face page 120 15. Typical Section of Till in Seattle , Washington State . 16. Erratics in Glacial Drift 17. Supposed Moraine between Speeton and Flamborough xiii 125 128 0 134 FIG . 18. Section in Mr. Green's Pit , N.E..
Pagina 17
... erratics strewn over zones on the mountain - sides , or some solitary perched block , or an isolated terminal moraine , bear testimony which is equally valid . On the steep slope leading from the valley of the Rhone into the Val d ...
... erratics strewn over zones on the mountain - sides , or some solitary perched block , or an isolated terminal moraine , bear testimony which is equally valid . On the steep slope leading from the valley of the Rhone into the Val d ...
Pagina 18
... Erratic blocks , however , are not restricted to the neighbourhood of the Lake of Geneva ; they are scattered over the lowland between the Alps and the Jura ; they ... erratics are scattered among the pine - 18 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... Erratic blocks , however , are not restricted to the neighbourhood of the Lake of Geneva ; they are scattered over the lowland between the Alps and the Jura ; they ... erratics are scattered among the pine - 18 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
Pagina 19
Thomas George Bonney. Neuchâtel , many erratics are scattered among the pine - trees . The largest , the famous Pierre à bot , contains from 40,000 to 45,000 cubic feet , and is perched at a height of 820 feet above the Lake of Neuchâtel ...
Thomas George Bonney. Neuchâtel , many erratics are scattered among the pine - trees . The largest , the famous Pierre à bot , contains from 40,000 to 45,000 cubic feet , and is perched at a height of 820 feet above the Lake of Neuchâtel ...
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Alpine Alps amount angular basin beneath boulder clay breccias Britain Carboniferous chalk chap cliffs climate coast comparatively considerable crags débris descend direction distance district Drift Edition elevation England Eocene erratics feet above sea-level fragments Geol geologists Geology Geology of England glacial deposits Glacial Epoch glaciers Glen Roy granite Greenland ground height higher hills hypothesis Ice Age ice-sheet ice-streams inches indicate inland ice Irish Sea islands Jour lakes land land-ice latitude latter less lower lowlands Malaspina Glacier marine mass material melting miles Moel Tryfaen molluscs moraine mountain nearly neighbourhood névé northern Norway numerous Nunataks occasionally occur peaks pebbles precipitation present probably Professor Quart range region ridges rise river roches moutonnées sands and gravels Scotland shells side slope snow snow-line sometimes southern stones stratified streams striated subangular submergence surface temperature terminal moraine thickness tion traced upper valley Wales western yards
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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.