Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... extending from the Alps into the Plains of the Po 8. Map of Greenland 9. Malaspina Glacier 41 69 108 • 10. The Kames of Maine and South - Eastern New Hampshire II . Section of Kame near Dover , New Hampshire 12. Drumlins in the Vicinity ...
... extending from the Alps into the Plains of the Po 8. Map of Greenland 9. Malaspina Glacier 41 69 108 • 10. The Kames of Maine and South - Eastern New Hampshire II . Section of Kame near Dover , New Hampshire 12. Drumlins in the Vicinity ...
Pagina 10
... in crevasses which happen to extend from the top to the bottom of the glacier , also augments its rasping power . Moreover , when the glacier makes its first advance , it may possibly 10 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... in crevasses which happen to extend from the top to the bottom of the glacier , also augments its rasping power . Moreover , when the glacier makes its first advance , it may possibly 10 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
Pagina 15
... extend almost from the present level of the stream to some two or three thousand feet above it , and further examination shows that many a lateral glen , in which now perhaps only a small snow - bed lingers in some sheltered corrie ...
... extend almost from the present level of the stream to some two or three thousand feet above it , and further examination shows that many a lateral glen , in which now perhaps only a small snow - bed lingers in some sheltered corrie ...
Pagina 35
... extended northward to the neighbourhood of Soleure . Along the present course of the Rhone it sent out a huge lobe far beyond the frontier of Switzerland , for erratics and other glacial deposits have been traced to within a few miles ...
... extended northward to the neighbourhood of Soleure . Along the present course of the Rhone it sent out a huge lobe far beyond the frontier of Switzerland , for erratics and other glacial deposits have been traced to within a few miles ...
Pagina 36
... extending from the Alps into the plains of the Po ( after Lyell ) . A , Crest of the Alpine watershed ; B , Névé fields of the ancient glaciers ; C , Moraines of ancient glaciers . the plain of Piedmont ; the most remarkable and ...
... extending from the Alps into the plains of the Po ( after Lyell ) . A , Crest of the Alpine watershed ; B , Névé fields of the ancient glaciers ; C , Moraines of ancient glaciers . the plain of Piedmont ; the most remarkable and ...
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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.