Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... higher and barer , and stones more often come thundering down from them or are swept along by avalanches of snow . Now and again a block , more headlong than the rest , closes its career by one vast leap which lands it out on the ...
... higher and barer , and stones more often come thundering down from them or are swept along by avalanches of snow . Now and again a block , more headlong than the rest , closes its career by one vast leap which lands it out on the ...
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... is wholly excavated in limestones and slates . They have been derived from various places higher up in the valley of the Rhone , one of the commonest rocks being a protogine . This beyond all ALPINE GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST 17.
... is wholly excavated in limestones and slates . They have been derived from various places higher up in the valley of the Rhone , one of the commonest rocks being a protogine . This beyond all ALPINE GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST 17.
Pagina 39
... higher than 4 ° F. - while the cold during the long winter months is intense , the January temperature about latitude 70 ° being often as low as 32 ° . It is not probable that the climate in any part of Europe during the Glacial Epoch ...
... higher than 4 ° F. - while the cold during the long winter months is intense , the January temperature about latitude 70 ° being often as low as 32 ° . It is not probable that the climate in any part of Europe during the Glacial Epoch ...
Pagina 43
... higher.1 Thick as the ice may be , it evidently swathes a hill - region . The undulations of its surface indicate the contours of the buried land , and each of its huge glaciers marks the course of a valley . The configuration of the ...
... higher.1 Thick as the ice may be , it evidently swathes a hill - region . The undulations of its surface indicate the contours of the buried land , and each of its huge glaciers marks the course of a valley . The configuration of the ...
Pagina 44
Thomas George Bonney. part of the ascent to the higher portion , and of the descent from it , is over a vast field of sloping or gently undulating snow.1 The contours of the buried region are perceptible only in the more immediate ...
Thomas George Bonney. part of the ascent to the higher portion , and of the descent from it , is over a vast field of sloping or gently undulating snow.1 The contours of the buried region are perceptible only in the more immediate ...
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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