Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... 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 on the ...
... 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 on the ...
Pagina 18
... range . Generally these blocks are scattered over а zone varying from about 100 to 250 yards wide ; occasionally three or four may be seen practically in contact . Numbers have been broken up for building , road - metalling , and ...
... range . Generally these blocks are scattered over а zone varying from about 100 to 250 yards wide ; occasionally three or four may be seen practically in contact . Numbers have been broken up for building , road - metalling , and ...
Pagina 19
... range . The Alpine and sub - Alpine region will repay us for further study , because there is no reason to suppose that any portion of it has been submerged beneath the sea , either at any time during the Glacial Epoch , or since this ...
... range . The Alpine and sub - Alpine region will repay us for further study , because there is no reason to suppose that any portion of it has been submerged beneath the sea , either at any time during the Glacial Epoch , or since this ...
Pagina 26
... range downwards from a cubic inch to one sixty - fourth of the same . This finer material , including the sandy clay , seems 1 Fresh sections can be seen by the side of a little path which turns off from the highroad just before the ...
... range downwards from a cubic inch to one sixty - fourth of the same . This finer material , including the sandy clay , seems 1 Fresh sections can be seen by the side of a little path which turns off from the highroad just before the ...
Pagina 43
... ranges or of any marked inequality . He traversed a huge plateau , at a height of from 8000 to 9000 feet above the sea , which for many miles was as nearly as possible level , and from which frozen snow shelved gently down eastwards and ...
... ranges or of any marked inequality . He traversed a huge plateau , at a height of from 8000 to 9000 feet above the sea , which for many miles was as nearly as possible level , and from which frozen snow shelved gently down eastwards and ...
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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.