Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... Débris extending from the Alps into the Plains of the Po 8. Map of Greenland · 9. Malaspina Glacier 10. The Kames of Maine and South - Eastern New Hampshire . 108 II . Section of Kame near Dover , New Hampshire · 110 12. Drumlins in the ...
... Débris extending from the Alps into the Plains of the Po 8. Map of Greenland · 9. Malaspina Glacier 10. The Kames of Maine and South - Eastern New Hampshire . 108 II . Section of Kame near Dover , New Hampshire · 110 12. Drumlins in the ...
Pagina 5
... débris . Here and there , how- ever , a solitary boulder forms a black spot on its pure surface , or a small scatter of them trails forth from the foot of some rocky spur which is more prominent and precipitous than its fellows . These ...
... débris . Here and there , how- ever , a solitary boulder forms a black spot on its pure surface , or a small scatter of them trails forth from the foot of some rocky spur which is more prominent and precipitous than its fellows . These ...
Pagina 6
... débris . The ice beneath them , as in the case of the glacier - table , is protected from the rays of the sun , and forms at last an inner ridge or core , on which sometimes the outer cover lies in very unstable equilibrium . The Unter ...
... débris . The ice beneath them , as in the case of the glacier - table , is protected from the rays of the sun , and forms at last an inner ridge or core , on which sometimes the outer cover lies in very unstable equilibrium . The Unter ...
Pagina 7
... débris descends to the bottom of the glacier , part is arrested in the narrower fissures and becomes embedded in its mass . At the base of the icy cascade the chasms often close up again , and the glacier moves on as a comparatively ...
... débris descends to the bottom of the glacier , part is arrested in the narrower fissures and becomes embedded in its mass . At the base of the icy cascade the chasms often close up again , and the glacier moves on as a comparatively ...
Pagina 8
... débris . The same is true of the lateral moraines . These also occa- sionally form large banks , resting partly on the slope of the valley , partly on the edge of the ice . Some- times they too may be , as it were , stranded , and ...
... débris . The same is true of the lateral moraines . These also occa- sionally form large banks , resting partly on the slope of the valley , partly on the edge of the ice . Some- times they too may be , as it were , stranded , and ...
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Alpine Alps amount angular basin beneath boulder clay breccias Carboniferous chalk chap cliffs climate coast comparatively considerable crags débris descend direction distance district Drift 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 Illustrations 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 places 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