Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 4
... Northern Miage are yet more like it ; while the Mer de Glace , among the aiguilles of Mont Blanc , is the nearest rival of this " Place de la Concorde of Nature , " as it has been not inappropriately termed . One of the most striking ...
... Northern Miage are yet more like it ; while the Mer de Glace , among the aiguilles of Mont Blanc , is the nearest rival of this " Place de la Concorde of Nature , " as it has been not inappropriately termed . One of the most striking ...
Pagina 28
... northern outskirts of the Alps ; and as they not unfrequently form " caps " to more perishable underlying beds , they have also been named Deckenschotter . the top , but also no small part of the 28 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... northern outskirts of the Alps ; and as they not unfrequently form " caps " to more perishable underlying beds , they have also been named Deckenschotter . the top , but also no small part of the 28 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
Pagina 35
... northern . They descended the valleys , they passed over the sites of the Italian lakes and on to the plains of Piedmont and Lombardy . Round one group of moraines the tide of battle ebbed and flowed in the struggle of Solferino ...
... northern . They descended the valleys , they passed over the sites of the Italian lakes and on to the plains of Piedmont and Lombardy . Round one group of moraines the tide of battle ebbed and flowed in the struggle of Solferino ...
Pagina 38
... Northern Hemisphere , extends beyond the seventy - ninth parallel of latitude . Over almost the whole region the mean annual temperature is below the 38 ALPINE GLACIERS, PAST AND PRESENT ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE-SHEETS.
... Northern Hemisphere , extends beyond the seventy - ninth parallel of latitude . Over almost the whole region the mean annual temperature is below the 38 ALPINE GLACIERS, PAST AND PRESENT ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE-SHEETS.
Pagina 39
... northern part of Siberia ; the cold there is no less intense than in the north of the other continent ; a very large slice of Siberia is 1 " A very noticeable feature of Grinnell Land is the paucity of glaciers and the non - existence ...
... northern part of Siberia ; the cold there is no less intense than in the north of the other continent ; a very large slice of Siberia is 1 " A very noticeable feature of Grinnell Land is the paucity of glaciers and the non - existence ...
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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.