Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... numerous Illustrations . Sixth Edition . XXIII . STUDIES in SPECTRUM ANALYSIS . By J. NORMAN LOCKYER , F.R.S. With Six Photographic Illustrations of Spectra , and numerous Engravings on Wood . Fifth Edition . 68. 6d . XXIV . A HISTORY ...
... numerous Illustrations . Sixth Edition . XXIII . STUDIES in SPECTRUM ANALYSIS . By J. NORMAN LOCKYER , F.R.S. With Six Photographic Illustrations of Spectra , and numerous Engravings on Wood . Fifth Edition . 68. 6d . XXIV . A HISTORY ...
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... numerous in our mother - tongue , to say nothing of other languages , a difficulty , to judge from my own experience , often attends the student . They seem to be written , in most cases , more with a view to advocating some particular ...
... numerous in our mother - tongue , to say nothing of other languages , a difficulty , to judge from my own experience , often attends the student . They seem to be written , in most cases , more with a view to advocating some particular ...
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... numerous glens from which they have now disappeared , and when their trunk streams were some forty miles in length - we pass to examine the deposits on the lowlands . Those which occur in the neigh- bourhood of the Lake of Zurich may be ...
... numerous glens from which they have now disappeared , and when their trunk streams were some forty miles in length - we pass to examine the deposits on the lowlands . Those which occur in the neigh- bourhood of the Lake of Zurich may be ...
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... 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 and Limmat , and they com- monly ...
... 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 and Limmat , and they com- monly ...
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... numerous . Larger blocks also are commoner , some occasionally occurring which are four feet or more in diameter . These are usually angular , but those of smaller size , as a rule , are more or less worn , even rounded pebbles being ...
... numerous . Larger blocks also are commoner , some occasionally occurring which are four feet or more in diameter . These are usually angular , but those of smaller size , as a rule , are more or less worn , even rounded pebbles being ...
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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.