Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... rise above the Glacier du Trient at the eastern end of the Mont Blanc 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 ...
... rise above the Glacier du Trient at the eastern end of the Mont Blanc 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 ...
Pagina 36
... rise like hills from Susa Mosta Vald Aosta TURIN Ros Caluso Chicasso River Po B FIG . 7. Map showing the lines of débris extending from the Alps into the plains of the Po ( after Lyell ) . A , Crest of the Alpine watershed ; B , Névé ...
... rise like hills from Susa Mosta Vald Aosta TURIN Ros Caluso Chicasso River Po B FIG . 7. Map showing the lines of débris extending from the Alps into the plains of the Po ( after Lyell ) . A , Crest of the Alpine watershed ; B , Névé ...
Pagina 39
... rise to a considerable elevation , nowhere exhibit an accumulation of ice in any way comparable with that of Greenland . The same is true of the northern part of Siberia ; the cold there is no less intense than in the north of the other ...
... rise to a considerable elevation , nowhere exhibit an accumulation of ice in any way comparable with that of Greenland . The same is true of the northern part of Siberia ; the cold there is no less intense than in the north of the other ...
Pagina 43
... rise full a thousand feet higher.1 Thick as the ice may be , it evidently swathes a hill - region . The undulations of its surface indicate the contours of the buried land , and each of its huge glaciers marks the course of a valley ...
... rise full a thousand feet higher.1 Thick as the ice may be , it evidently swathes a hill - region . The undulations of its surface indicate the contours of the buried land , and each of its huge glaciers marks the course of a valley ...
Pagina 44
... rise above its surface like islands from a sea . On approaching these from the interior , the undulations of the snowfields assume a more definite plan , and their slopes converge towards a broad shallow basin- like depression , which ...
... rise above its surface like islands from a sea . On approaching these from the interior , the undulations of the snowfields assume a more definite plan , and their slopes converge towards a broad shallow basin- like depression , which ...
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Alpine Alps amount angular basin beneath boulder clay breccias Britain Carboniferous chalk chap cliffs climate coast comparatively considerable crags débris descend direction distance district Drift Edition elevation England Eocene erratics feet above sea-level fragments Geol geologists Geology Geology of England glacial deposits Glacial Epoch glaciers Glen Roy granite Greenland ground height higher hills hypothesis Ice Age ice-sheet ice-streams inches indicate inland ice Irish Sea islands Jour lakes land land-ice latitude latter less lower lowlands Malaspina Glacier marine mass material melting miles Moel Tryfaen molluscs moraine mountain nearly neighbourhood névé northern Norway numerous Nunataks occasionally occur peaks pebbles precipitation present probably Professor Quart range region ridges rise river roches moutonnées sands and gravels Scotland shells side slope snow snow-line sometimes southern stones stratified streams striated subangular submergence surface temperature terminal moraine thickness tion traced upper valley Wales western yards
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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.