Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... regions the history of which is practically beyond doubt . With this end in view , I have begun by giving a sketch of some such regions , and then have passed on to describe the phenomena which are the subject of more dispute . Here ...
... regions the history of which is practically beyond doubt . With this end in view , I have begun by giving a sketch of some such regions , and then have passed on to describe the phenomena which are the subject of more dispute . Here ...
Pagina 16
... regions can fail to decipher the familiar characters of ordinary rain and river action , though these are sometimes blurred by the palimpsest writing of the ice - scribe . Moreover , with one or two slight excep- tions , as at the ...
... regions can fail to decipher the familiar characters of ordinary rain and river action , though these are sometimes blurred by the palimpsest writing of the ice - scribe . Moreover , with one or two slight excep- tions , as at the ...
Pagina 19
... 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 came to an end . Hence we may safely ...
... 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 came to an end . Hence we may safely ...
Pagina 27
... region affords clear evidence that during the Ice Age the great glaciers advanced and retired , probably more than once . For the moment , however , we shall refrain from entering into the details of this question , and shall content ...
... region affords clear evidence that during the Ice Age the great glaciers advanced and retired , probably more than once . For the moment , however , we shall refrain from entering into the details of this question , and shall content ...
Pagina 37
... regions are but the dwindled representa- tives of gigantic predecessors , to which , at any rate on the Swiss lowland , we can hardly refuse the name of ice - sheets . CHAPTER II ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS LAND - ALPINE GLACIERS ...
... regions are but the dwindled representa- tives of gigantic predecessors , to which , at any rate on the Swiss lowland , we can hardly refuse the name of ice - sheets . CHAPTER II ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS LAND - ALPINE GLACIERS ...
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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.