Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... direction . Yet one other mark is made by a glacier . Its surface is melted by the sun ; the water trickles into rivulets , and the rivulets collect into streams , which quickly furrow a path for themselves ; the ice is sculptured by a ...
... direction . Yet one other mark is made by a glacier . Its surface is melted by the sun ; the water trickles into rivulets , and the rivulets collect into streams , which quickly furrow a path for themselves ; the ice is sculptured by a ...
Pagina 17
... direction as is taken by the present river . Every valley in the Alps affords similar testimony , though it is not always written in characters equally distinct . In some districts the rocks disintegrate more easily , the valleys are ...
... direction as is taken by the present river . Every valley in the Alps affords similar testimony , though it is not always written in characters equally distinct . In some districts the rocks disintegrate more easily , the valleys are ...
Pagina 24
... direction of the present glacier . The Glacier of Argentière is in a nearly similar position ; about the last fifty yards rests on the stony bed of the Arve valley , the remainder lies on rocky slopes . In front of it there is an ...
... direction of the present glacier . The Glacier of Argentière is in a nearly similar position ; about the last fifty yards rests on the stony bed of the Arve valley , the remainder lies on rocky slopes . In front of it there is an ...
Pagina 34
... FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND . COMPILED BY FALSAN . Arrows indicate direction of motion . LANC MT.ISERAN ) GENEVRE MT . VISO PIC D Longitude १ Weh Nice Strasbourg GLACIERS OF +44 RHINE 46 48- 50- indicates that the action of the ice has not ...
... FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND . COMPILED BY FALSAN . Arrows indicate direction of motion . LANC MT.ISERAN ) GENEVRE MT . VISO PIC D Longitude १ Weh Nice Strasbourg GLACIERS OF +44 RHINE 46 48- 50- indicates that the action of the ice has not ...
Pagina 45
... direction of the great effluent , the surface of which is already lying at a lower level . Thus the offshoot becomes relatively a tributary glacier , though from a common source , and the result of this is curious . No moraines can be ...
... direction of the great effluent , the surface of which is already lying at a lower level . Thus the offshoot becomes relatively a tributary glacier , though from a common source , and the result of this is curious . No moraines can be ...
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