Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... present state of our knowledge , the most perplexing of all the problems which this Epoch presents . Glacial geology is a large subject : the volumes of this series are comparatively small . Hence , in order to keep the present one ...
... present state of our knowledge , the most perplexing of all the problems which this Epoch presents . Glacial geology is a large subject : the volumes of this series are comparatively small . Hence , in order to keep the present one ...
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Thomas George Bonney. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST CHAPTER I ALPINE GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST AMONG the highest peaks of the Bernese Oberland is a great upland valley , almost a natural ...
Thomas George Bonney. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST CHAPTER I ALPINE GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST AMONG the highest peaks of the Bernese Oberland is a great upland valley , almost a natural ...
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... present a certain resemblance to that which we have described ; those of the Argentière and the 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 ...
... present a certain resemblance to that which we have described ; those of the Argentière and the 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 ...
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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.