Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... Side . By ALFRED SIDGWICK . Second Edition . XLIX . The ORIGIN of CULTIVATED ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE . Second Edition . PLANTS . By L. JELLY FISH , STAR FISH , and SEA URCHINS . Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems . By G. J. ...
... Side . By ALFRED SIDGWICK . Second Edition . XLIX . The ORIGIN of CULTIVATED ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE . Second Edition . PLANTS . By L. JELLY FISH , STAR FISH , and SEA URCHINS . Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems . By G. J. ...
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... side of a case , and leave the verdict to the jury . Like any such official , I have my own view as to what that verdict should be , and this doubtless will be disclosed to those who can read between the lines , but I may claim that it ...
... side of a case , and leave the verdict to the jury . Like any such official , I have my own view as to what that verdict should be , and this doubtless will be disclosed to those who can read between the lines , but I may claim that it ...
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... side it is very large , covering the ice- streams for about a quarter of their whole length , and piled up in heaps or hillocks more than fifty feet high . The cause is this : the mountain range is largely composed of slabby slaty ...
... side it is very large , covering the ice- streams for about a quarter of their whole length , and piled up in heaps or hillocks more than fifty feet high . The cause is this : the mountain range is largely composed of slabby slaty ...
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... descend the slopes on either side and plunge beneath the ice , bearing with them much débris and many partially rounded stones , which go to augment either the ground moraine or the material which ALPINE GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST II.
... descend the slopes on either side and plunge beneath the ice , bearing with them much débris and many partially rounded stones , which go to augment either the ground moraine or the material which ALPINE GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST II.
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... 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 been made accessible , and affords a wonderful study of the erosive action of a ...
... 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 been made accessible , and affords a wonderful study of the erosive action of a ...
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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.