Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 8
... important factors . For instance , the amount of moraine stuff on the glaciers descending the western valleys of the New Zealand Alps around Aorangi is comparatively small , while on those of the eastern side it is very large , covering ...
... important factors . For instance , the amount of moraine stuff on the glaciers descending the western valleys of the New Zealand Alps around Aorangi is comparatively small , while on those of the eastern side it is very large , covering ...
Pagina 11
... importance ' there is much dispute , some holding that a very large quantity of materials travels in this way , while others think it to be com- paratively small . Boulders and grit , as already stated , are engulfed in crevasses , and ...
... importance ' there is much dispute , some holding that a very large quantity of materials travels in this way , while others think it to be com- paratively small . Boulders and grit , as already stated , are engulfed in crevasses , and ...
Pagina 16
... importance is found until the confluence of the Gadmenthal with the main valley is reached . Here is a grassy basin , the flat meadows of which suggest that it formerly may have been a small lake , which has been filled up by débris ...
... importance is found until the confluence of the Gadmenthal with the main valley is reached . Here is a grassy basin , the flat meadows of which suggest that it formerly may have been a small lake , which has been filled up by débris ...
Pagina 18
... important facts as to the distribution of these blocks will be found in Professor A. Favre's well - known work , Recherches géologiques dans les Parties de la Savoie . . . voisines du Mont Blanc , chap . vi . Neuchâtel , many erratics ...
... important facts as to the distribution of these blocks will be found in Professor A. Favre's well - known work , Recherches géologiques dans les Parties de la Savoie . . . voisines du Mont Blanc , chap . vi . Neuchâtel , many erratics ...
Pagina 21
... important agents of denudation than mountain torrents , for one 1 See summary of Heim's Handbuch der Gletscherkunde , by F. F. Tuckett . Alpine Journal , xii . p . 301 . of these , though its collecting basin is only one ALPINE GLACIERS ...
... important agents of denudation than mountain torrents , for one 1 See summary of Heim's Handbuch der Gletscherkunde , by F. F. Tuckett . Alpine Journal , xii . p . 301 . of these , though its collecting basin is only one ALPINE GLACIERS ...
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