Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina ix
... localities during the Glacial Epoch , and the different explanations of this wide- spread refrigeration are stated and briefly discussed . To account for it , seems to me , in the present state of our knowledge , the most perplexing of ...
... localities during the Glacial Epoch , and the different explanations of this wide- spread refrigeration are stated and briefly discussed . To account for it , seems to me , in the present state of our knowledge , the most perplexing of ...
Pagina 29
... locality are usually sufficiently numerous to give a good idea of the material . The matrix is a greyish earthy loam or clay , fairly stiff ; the stones represent a great variety of rocks from the mountains about the glens of the Linth ...
... locality are usually sufficiently numerous to give a good idea of the material . The matrix is a greyish earthy loam or clay , fairly stiff ; the stones represent a great variety of rocks from the mountains about the glens of the Linth ...
Pagina 34
... locality where the tool - marks of ice are singularly interesting and well preserved . This is the well- known " glacier garden glacier garden " near the Lion monument at Lucerne . A narrow rather steep - sided valley , which opens out ...
... locality where the tool - marks of ice are singularly interesting and well preserved . This is the well- known " glacier garden glacier garden " near the Lion monument at Lucerne . A narrow rather steep - sided valley , which opens out ...
Pagina 97
... localities , which they maintain can be accounted for only by a submergence during a part of the Glacial Epoch , and they urge that the phenomena of Glen Roy accord very well with what they suppose to have been the history of that epoch ...
... localities , which they maintain can be accounted for only by a submergence during a part of the Glacial Epoch , and they urge that the phenomena of Glen Roy accord very well with what they suppose to have been the history of that epoch ...
Pagina 123
... localities in Britain would be impossible within the limits of this volume . We must content ourselves with a few sections which may serve as samples of the rest , referring the reader for further details to the excellent summary given ...
... localities in Britain would be impossible within the limits of this volume . We must content ourselves with a few sections which may serve as samples of the rest , referring the reader for further details to the excellent summary given ...
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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.