Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... GLACIERS , PAST AND PRESENT II . ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS PART II . - TRACES OF THE GLACIAL EPOCH I. LAKE BASINS AND THEIR RELATION TO GLACIERS -THE PARALLEL ROADS OF GLENROY- ESKERS , ETC. II . ICE - WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ...
... GLACIERS , PAST AND PRESENT II . ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS PART II . - TRACES OF THE GLACIAL EPOCH I. LAKE BASINS AND THEIR RELATION TO GLACIERS -THE PARALLEL ROADS OF GLENROY- ESKERS , ETC. II . ICE - WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ...
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... - streams glide slowly forth , forming the Great Aletsch Glacier , the largest in the Alps . Such a hidden group of glaciers is far from rare in the great mountain chains . To speak of the 3 Alps alone , the basins of the Gorner and the.
... - streams glide slowly forth , forming the Great Aletsch Glacier , the largest in the Alps . Such a hidden group of glaciers is far from rare in the great mountain chains . To speak of the 3 Alps alone , the basins of the Gorner and the.
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Thomas George Bonney. Alps alone , the basins of the Gorner and the Fee Glaciers present a certain resemblance to ... glacier basin from the snow and ice of the actual peaks . Above this rift the solidified water is motionless , for it is ...
Thomas George Bonney. Alps alone , the basins of the Gorner and the Fee Glaciers present a certain resemblance to ... glacier basin from the snow and ice of the actual peaks . Above this rift the solidified water is motionless , for it is ...
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... glacier is born , so it is nourished . I have described its birthplace , I have dwelt on its beginning in some little detail , because in the pages which follow it will be necessary more than once to call up ... GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST 5.
... glacier is born , so it is nourished . I have described its birthplace , I have dwelt on its beginning in some little detail , because in the pages which follow it will be necessary more than once to call up ... GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST 5.
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... Glacier , on which the general gradient is only about The Alpine glaciers advance on an average about a foot a day . Large glaciers move more quickly than small ; from 20 to 40 , and in one case 50 feet has been recorded for the great ...
... Glacier , on which the general gradient is only about The Alpine glaciers advance on an average about a foot a day . Large glaciers move more quickly than small ; from 20 to 40 , and in one case 50 feet has been recorded for the great ...
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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.