Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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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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... mountain mass , the crags and precipitous slopes on either hand rise higher and barer , and stones more often come thundering down from them or are swept along by avalanches of snow . Now and again a block , more headlong than the rest ...
... mountain mass , the crags and precipitous slopes on either hand rise higher and barer , and stones more often come thundering down from them or are swept along by avalanches of snow . Now and again a block , more headlong than the rest ...
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... mountain range is largely composed of slabby slaty masses of stratified rock , which dip towards the west . On that side the valleys descend nearly along the slope of the beds ; the cliffs are low , and débris does not roll far ; while ...
... mountain range is largely composed of slabby slaty masses of stratified rock , which dip towards the west . On that side the valleys descend nearly along the slope of the beds ; the cliffs are low , and débris does not roll far ; while ...
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... mountain torrent , so here a pot - hole is ground out , but the peculiar mode of excavation usually makes the hollow ... mountains long before the summer reaches its end . It must be remembered , of course , that rocks and stones may be ...
... mountain torrent , so here a pot - hole is ground out , but the peculiar mode of excavation usually makes the hollow ... mountains long before the summer reaches its end . It must be remembered , of course , that rocks and stones may be ...
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... mountain- chain as the Alps , the evidence , with many variations in detail owing to local circumstances , is everywhere substantially the same . Take , for instance , the valley of the Aar in the neighbourhood of the Grimsel hospice ...
... mountain- chain as the Alps , the evidence , with many variations in detail owing to local circumstances , is everywhere substantially the same . Take , for instance , the valley of the Aar in the neighbourhood of the Grimsel hospice ...
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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.