Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... 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 156286 ice - sheet or such a deposit as is now.
... 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 156286 ice - sheet or such a deposit as is now.
Pagina viii
Thomas George Bonney. ice - sheet or such a deposit as is now accumulating on the Great Bank of Newfoundland - must be determined by the teaching of other facts , namely , by what can be learnt from regions the history of which is ...
Thomas George Bonney. ice - sheet or such a deposit as is now accumulating on the Great Bank of Newfoundland - must be determined by the teaching of other facts , namely , by what can be learnt from regions the history of which is ...
Pagina 35
... ice - sheet , almost the whole of the Swiss lowland was buried , and the ice welled up against the flanks of the Jura to a height of 3000 feet above the Lake of Neuchâtel , whence it extended northward to the neighbourhood of Soleure ...
... ice - sheet , almost the whole of the Swiss lowland was buried , and the ice welled up against the flanks of the Jura to a height of 3000 feet above the Lake of Neuchâtel , whence it extended northward to the neighbourhood of Soleure ...
Pagina 40
... snow swathes the islands of the Arctic Ocean - not only those of smaller size on the Greenland coast , but also those , both small and large , to the north of the American continent ; yet in none is an ice - sheet found ; this seems to ...
... snow swathes the islands of the Arctic Ocean - not only those of smaller size on the Greenland coast , but also those , both small and large , to the north of the American continent ; yet in none is an ice - sheet found ; this seems to ...
Pagina 42
... ice - sheet which now masks its interior were reduced to a few isolated glaciers , would probably present a very close resem- blance to the latter . Norway also is pierced with fjords ; it is fringed with islands ; 2 it is a region of 1 ...
... ice - sheet which now masks its interior were reduced to a few isolated glaciers , would probably present a very close resem- blance to the latter . Norway also is pierced with fjords ; it is fringed with islands ; 2 it is a region of 1 ...
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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.