Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... ridges of dark rock . The white floor of the valley , at this meeting - place of the frozen waters , is comparatively level . It lies some two thousand feet below the snowy saddles , and above them the peaks tower up about as high again ...
... ridges of dark rock . The white floor of the valley , at this meeting - place of the frozen waters , is comparatively level . It lies some two thousand feet below the snowy saddles , and above them the peaks tower up about as high again ...
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... ridge or core , on which sometimes the outer cover lies in very unstable equilibrium . The Unter Aar Glacier , on which the general gradient is only about The Alpine glaciers advance on an average about a foot a day . Large glaciers ...
... ridge or core , on which sometimes the outer cover lies in very unstable equilibrium . The Unter Aar Glacier , on which the general gradient is only about The Alpine glaciers advance on an average about a foot a day . Large glaciers ...
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... ridges , jutting knobs and rude hollows , we find rounded , smoothed , in places even polished surfaces . The last task , however , has been ill performed , for the smoothed face of the rock is scratched and striated - sometimes even ...
... ridges , jutting knobs and rude hollows , we find rounded , smoothed , in places even polished surfaces . The last task , however , has been ill performed , for the smoothed face of the rock is scratched and striated - sometimes even ...
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... ridge , called the Kirchet , through which the Aar has cut a narrow gorge.1 The side which faces the east is steep , almost precipitous , but up and over this , some 300 feet above the valley , the glacier has been 1 1 This cañon has ...
... ridge , called the Kirchet , through which the Aar has cut a narrow gorge.1 The side which faces the east is steep , almost precipitous , but up and over this , some 300 feet above the valley , the glacier has been 1 1 This cañon has ...
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... ridge , the summit of which , commanding a lovely view of mountains and lowland , is 1522 feet above the level of the lake . Its crest consists of a mass of gravel , which is sufficiently consolidated to form rather precipitous crags ...
... ridge , the summit of which , commanding a lovely view of mountains and lowland , is 1522 feet above the level of the lake . Its crest consists of a mass of gravel , which is sufficiently consolidated to form rather precipitous crags ...
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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.