Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... Materials for a Code of International Law . By Professor LEONE LEVI , King's College , London . $ 1.50 . 61. THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS . With 79 Illustrations . By Sir J. WILLIAM DAWSON , LL . D. , F. R. S. $ 1.75 . 62 ...
... Materials for a Code of International Law . By Professor LEONE LEVI , King's College , London . $ 1.50 . 61. THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS . With 79 Illustrations . By Sir J. WILLIAM DAWSON , LL . D. , F. R. S. $ 1.75 . 62 ...
Pagina vii
... materials , has a certain structure , and stands in certain relations to other deposits . These are facts , and their bearing on the question of its origin - whether it be the ground - moraine of an ice - sheet or such a deposit as is ...
... materials , has a certain structure , and stands in certain relations to other deposits . These are facts , and their bearing on the question of its origin - whether it be the ground - moraine of an ice - sheet or such a deposit as is ...
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... The name applied to the material of the upper part of a glacier , where it is more nearly in the condition of frozen snow . The German terin is firn . falls on the steep slopes of the peaks soon shoots 4 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... The name applied to the material of the upper part of a glacier , where it is more nearly in the condition of frozen snow . The German terin is firn . falls on the steep slopes of the peaks soon shoots 4 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
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... materials have been scattered . Some of the blocks which were swallowed up in the shal- lower fissures appear again , in some cases disclosed by the melting of the ice , in others possibly extruded by an upward motion in the mass itself ...
... materials have been scattered . Some of the blocks which were swallowed up in the shal- lower fissures appear again , in some cases disclosed by the melting of the ice , in others possibly extruded by an upward motion in the mass itself ...
Pagina 8
... materials also may be scattered , owing to a steady shrinkage of the glacier on the sloping sides of the valley . The volume of the moraine is dependent on a variety of circum- stances , but the nature of the rocks in the adjacent crags ...
... materials also may be scattered , owing to a steady shrinkage of the glacier on the sloping sides of the valley . The volume of the moraine is dependent on a variety of circum- stances , but the nature of the rocks in the adjacent crags ...
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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