Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina x
... the deposits near Zurich , the Rev. E. Hill for co - operation in visiting those of Eastern England , and Miss C. A. Raisin for reading the first proofs of this book . СНАР . TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I. - EXISTING EVIDENCE X PREFACE.
... the deposits near Zurich , the Rev. E. Hill for co - operation in visiting those of Eastern England , and Miss C. A. Raisin for reading the first proofs of this book . СНАР . TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I. - EXISTING EVIDENCE X PREFACE.
Pagina 10
... hills of Auvergne . Instead of rough angular ridges , jutting knobs and rude hollows , we find rounded , smoothed , in places even polished surfaces . The last task , however , has been ill performed , for the smoothed face of the rock ...
... hills of Auvergne . Instead of rough angular ridges , jutting knobs and rude hollows , we find rounded , smoothed , in places even polished surfaces . The last task , however , has been ill performed , for the smoothed face of the rock ...
Pagina 28
... hill , noted for a picturesque ravine called the Teufelskeller . The pebble - bed apparently forms not only the crags at " " 1 Hence the latter rock is called the löcherige Nagelfluh , or " pitted ' Nagelfluh , to distinguish it from ...
... hill , noted for a picturesque ravine called the Teufelskeller . The pebble - bed apparently forms not only the crags at " " 1 Hence the latter rock is called the löcherige Nagelfluh , or " pitted ' Nagelfluh , to distinguish it from ...
Pagina 29
... hill over- looking the Limmat , is one instance ; the same is true of the Hohe Promenade , and of all the terrace on which the Polytechnic is built . Similar deposits may be traced on the Zurichberg.2 Excavations in this locality are ...
... hill over- looking the Limmat , is one instance ; the same is true of the Hohe Promenade , and of all the terrace on which the Polytechnic is built . Similar deposits may be traced on the Zurichberg.2 Excavations in this locality are ...
Pagina 30
... hill above Thalwyl , on the left bank of the Lake of Zurich , is another group of excavations in a morainic deposit , which requires a brief descrip- tion . The clayey matrix contains rather more sand than in the last - named instance ...
... hill above Thalwyl , on the left bank of the Lake of Zurich , is another group of excavations in a morainic deposit , which requires a brief descrip- tion . The clayey matrix contains rather more sand than in the last - named instance ...
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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