Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... LAKE BASINS AND THEIR RELATION TO GLACIERS -THE PARALLEL ROADS OF GLENROY- ESKERS , ETC. II . ICE - WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DEPOSITS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE ? THE III . ICE - WORK IN EUROPE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD · PART ...
... LAKE BASINS AND THEIR RELATION TO GLACIERS -THE PARALLEL ROADS OF GLENROY- ESKERS , ETC. II . ICE - WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DEPOSITS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE ? THE III . ICE - WORK IN EUROPE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD · PART ...
Pagina xiii
... Lake of Zurich • 9 13 26 31 33 to face page 35 36 5. Till resting on Old Gravel of Limmat Valley , near Kill- wangen Station ( Diagrammatic ) 6. Map of Glacial Movements in France and Switzerland 7. Map showing the Lines of Débris ...
... Lake of Zurich • 9 13 26 31 33 to face page 35 36 5. Till resting on Old Gravel of Limmat Valley , near Kill- wangen Station ( Diagrammatic ) 6. Map of Glacial Movements in France and Switzerland 7. Map showing the Lines of Débris ...
Pagina 15
... Lake , " up the great mountain buttress round which the river bends sharply to the north , the rocks everywhere are rounded and smoothed and striated . ( See Frontis- piece . ) All down the deep and narrow glen for some miles the story ...
... Lake , " up the great mountain buttress round which the river bends sharply to the north , the rocks everywhere are rounded and smoothed and striated . ( See Frontis- piece . ) All down the deep and narrow glen for some miles the story ...
Pagina 16
... lake , which has been filled up by débris brought down by the torrent . Beyond this little oasis in the wild mountain - land the valley is barred by a limestone ridge , called the Kirchet , through which the Aar has cut a narrow gorge.1 ...
... lake , which has been filled up by débris brought down by the torrent . Beyond this little oasis in the wild mountain - land the valley is barred by a limestone ridge , called the Kirchet , through which the Aar has cut a narrow gorge.1 ...
Pagina 17
... Lake of Brienz , over the site of which , as will presently be seen , the great ice - stream formerly passed on to the lowlands in the same general direction as is taken by the present river . Every valley in the Alps affords similar ...
... Lake of Brienz , over the site of which , as will presently be seen , the great ice - stream formerly passed on to the lowlands in the same general direction as is taken by the present river . Every valley in the Alps affords similar ...
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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.