Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 19
... difference , if any , exists between the morainic material which is still in process of accumulation , and that which has been distributed over the lowlands . In the recent moraines blocks of various sizes , from a few inches to many ...
... difference , if any , exists between the morainic material which is still in process of accumulation , and that which has been distributed over the lowlands . In the recent moraines blocks of various sizes , from a few inches to many ...
Pagina 55
... difference between . the level of the floe and the ice - foot ; but as the latter is constantly increasing in height , and the former is twice daily oscillating with the change of tides , it is easy to see how a line of junction is ...
... difference between . the level of the floe and the ice - foot ; but as the latter is constantly increasing in height , and the former is twice daily oscillating with the change of tides , it is easy to see how a line of junction is ...
Pagina 67
... difference between the condition of the Arctic and the Antarctic coasts is probably due to the heavier precipitation in the latter , and the more uniform and steep slope of 1 This probably produces an effect in Greenland . At Iviktut ...
... difference between the condition of the Arctic and the Antarctic coasts is probably due to the heavier precipitation in the latter , and the more uniform and steep slope of 1 This probably produces an effect in Greenland . At Iviktut ...
Pagina 104
... difference in elevation between the two districts is not very great . Though Ben Nevis rises to a height of 4406 feet , it considerably overtops its neighbours , while much of the upland around Glen Roy lies rather above the 2000 - foot ...
... difference in elevation between the two districts is not very great . Though Ben Nevis rises to a height of 4406 feet , it considerably overtops its neighbours , while much of the upland around Glen Roy lies rather above the 2000 - foot ...
Pagina 123
... difference of opinion exists in regard to these , all geologists admitting that , during the larger part of the Glacial Epoch , they were occupied , if not by an ice - sheet , 1 " Geology of England and Wales " ( 2nd edit . ) , where ...
... difference of opinion exists in regard to these , all geologists admitting that , during the larger part of the Glacial Epoch , they were occupied , if not by an ice - sheet , 1 " Geology of England and Wales " ( 2nd edit . ) , where ...
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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