Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 18
... feet , and on its flat top a pavilion has been built . Similar boulders - though generally not so large may be traced along the shore of Lake Leman , even down to Geneva . Here and there may be found a peculiar mottled green and white ...
... feet , and on its flat top a pavilion has been built . Similar boulders - though generally not so large may be traced along the shore of Lake Leman , even down to Geneva . Here and there may be found a peculiar mottled green and white ...
Pagina 19
... feet , and is perched at a height of 820 feet above the Lake of Neuchâtel . It , like most of its neighbours , is pro- togine from the Mont Blanc range . The Alpine and sub - Alpine region will repay us for further study , because there ...
... feet , and is perched at a height of 820 feet above the Lake of Neuchâtel . It , like most of its neighbours , is pro- togine from the Mont Blanc range . The Alpine and sub - Alpine region will repay us for further study , because there ...
Pagina 27
... feet above the level of the lake . Its crest consists of a mass of gravel , which is sufficiently consolidated to form rather precipitous crags . This rock presents a superficial resemblance to the well - known Nagelfluh , a ...
... feet above the level of the lake . Its crest consists of a mass of gravel , which is sufficiently consolidated to form rather precipitous crags . This rock presents a superficial resemblance to the well - known Nagelfluh , a ...
Pagina 28
... feet , and beneath it comes a mass of earthy stuff , including boulders and stones , more or less rounded and some- times striated ; the volume of the finer material apparently exceeding that of the coarser . Large blocks seem to be not ...
... feet , and beneath it comes a mass of earthy stuff , including boulders and stones , more or less rounded and some- times striated ; the volume of the finer material apparently exceeding that of the coarser . Large blocks seem to be not ...
Pagina 30
... feet of clay , into which it passed rather abruptly . This was yellowish in the upper part , greyer and more sandy in the lower , and one or two dark streaks suggested the presence of carbonaceous matter . Below this clay was the usual ...
... feet of clay , into which it passed rather abruptly . This was yellowish in the upper part , greyer and more sandy in the lower , and one or two dark streaks suggested the presence of carbonaceous matter . Below this clay was the usual ...
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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.