Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... mentioned , may be found ; as , for instance , the great block of impure serpentine lying some distance from the end of the Schwarzberg glacier on the little plain near the Mattmark Hotel , which measures about 50 feet each way . A ...
... mentioned , may be found ; as , for instance , the great block of impure serpentine lying some distance from the end of the Schwarzberg glacier on the little plain near the Mattmark Hotel , which measures about 50 feet each way . A ...
Pagina 31
... mention . Immediately below the older part of Zurich , after the confluence of the Sihl , the valley begins to widen . FIG . 4. - Section of Till , near Thalwyl , Lake of Zurich . + This block is about half a yard in diameter . Its ...
... mention . Immediately below the older part of Zurich , after the confluence of the Sihl , the valley begins to widen . FIG . 4. - Section of Till , near Thalwyl , Lake of Zurich . + This block is about half a yard in diameter . Its ...
Pagina 49
... mention predaceous animals , such as bears , foxes , and ermines ) , are fairly numerous , showing that the district must produce a considerable amount of herbage.1 Almost everywhere the lower ground near the coast seems free from ...
... mention predaceous animals , such as bears , foxes , and ermines ) , are fairly numerous , showing that the district must produce a considerable amount of herbage.1 Almost everywhere the lower ground near the coast seems free from ...
Pagina 50
... mentioned here , namely , that it may intercept the course of a small river fed from another portion of the ice - sheet , and thus , as occasionally happens in the Alps , may dam up the water and produce a lake of some magnitude . This ...
... mentioned here , namely , that it may intercept the course of a small river fed from another portion of the ice - sheet , and thus , as occasionally happens in the Alps , may dam up the water and produce a lake of some magnitude . This ...
Pagina 68
... mentioned in the remainder of this book . To quote the description of M. I. C. Russell , who was in charge of the explor- ing party in 1891 , the great Malaspina Glacier is one of those for which the name of a Piedmont glacier has been ...
... mentioned in the remainder of this book . To quote the description of M. I. C. Russell , who was in charge of the explor- ing party in 1891 , the great Malaspina Glacier is one of those for which the name of a Piedmont glacier has been ...
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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