Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 19
... 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 is no reason to suppose ...
... 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 is no reason to suppose ...
Pagina 32
... height of eighty or a hundred feet above the present level of the water . It is , however , older than some of the morainic de- posits , as is proved , for instance , by a section about ten miles below Zurich , near Killwangen , where ...
... height of eighty or a hundred feet above the present level of the water . It is , however , older than some of the morainic de- posits , as is proved , for instance , by a section about ten miles below Zurich , near Killwangen , where ...
Pagina 35
... height of 3000 feet above the Lake of Neuchâtel , whence it 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 ...
... height of 3000 feet above the Lake of Neuchâtel , whence it 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 ...
Pagina 36
... 'Aoste . This moraine forms a curved chain of hills , with a frontage of over fifty miles , which rise sometimes to a height of more than 1500 feet . In short , the glaciers of the Alps - and. 36 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... 'Aoste . This moraine forms a curved chain of hills , with a frontage of over fifty miles , which rise sometimes to a height of more than 1500 feet . In short , the glaciers of the Alps - and. 36 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
Pagina 43
... height of from two to four thousand feet ; for a considerable distance inland the continuity of the ice is often interrupted by projecting masses of rock , the remnants of buried mountains , which sometimes rise full a thousand feet ...
... height of from two to four thousand feet ; for a considerable distance inland the continuity of the ice is often interrupted by projecting masses of rock , the remnants of buried mountains , which sometimes rise full a thousand feet ...
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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.