Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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... whole series . To the descriptions - necessarily rather brief - I have appended a short statement of the interpretations which have been proposed , and have pointed out where they appear to me strong and where weak . In other words , I ...
... whole series . To the descriptions - necessarily rather brief - I have appended a short statement of the interpretations which have been proposed , and have pointed out where they appear to me strong and where weak . In other words , I ...
Pagina 4
... whole mass creeps slowly downwards towards the valley of the Rhone . The snow which 1 The name applied to the material of the upper part of a glacier , where it is more nearly in the condition of frozen snow . The German term is firn ...
... whole mass creeps slowly downwards towards the valley of the Rhone . The snow which 1 The name applied to the material of the upper part of a glacier , where it is more nearly in the condition of frozen snow . The German term is firn ...
Pagina 8
... 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 masses of stratified rock , which dip towards the west . On that side the valleys ...
... 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 masses of stratified rock , which dip towards the west . On that side the valleys ...
Pagina 21
... whole year was only 2000. Observations on seven Green- land and ten Norwegian glaciers gave as the mean results for the summer months 147.9 grammes per cubic metre ; and Professor Helland calculates that all the glaciers of Justedal ...
... whole year was only 2000. Observations on seven Green- land and ten Norwegian glaciers gave as the mean results for the summer months 147.9 grammes per cubic metre ; and Professor Helland calculates that all the glaciers of Justedal ...
Pagina 23
... whole way upon it . Similar narrow plains may often be observed in the upper parts of valleys , the heads of which are occupied by glaciers , as , for example , between Saas - im - grund and the Mattmark Hotel ; but as the torrent is ...
... whole way upon it . Similar narrow plains may often be observed in the upper parts of valleys , the heads of which are occupied by glaciers , as , for example , between Saas - im - grund and the Mattmark Hotel ; but as the torrent is ...
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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.