Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... Khantak 2 SCALE OF STATUTE MILES K.Phipps 10 12 14 10 18 20 Queen C HUBBARD F103 DIXON 4357 900 ATTLE 3193 Knight No.1 Malgrave Mission Ice - work Thomas George Bonney LELAND STANFORD JVNIOR VNIVERSITY NORTHWES 140130 Front Cover.
... Khantak 2 SCALE OF STATUTE MILES K.Phipps 10 12 14 10 18 20 Queen C HUBBARD F103 DIXON 4357 900 ATTLE 3193 Knight No.1 Malgrave Mission Ice - work Thomas George Bonney LELAND STANFORD JVNIOR VNIVERSITY NORTHWES 140130 Front Cover.
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... miles the story is the same : ice - worn , ice - scored rocks , perched blocks and scattered débris , prove that a vast glacier once welled up high against the pre- cipitous slopes on either hand ; for the marks extend almost from the ...
... miles the story is the same : ice - worn , ice - scored rocks , perched blocks and scattered débris , prove that a vast glacier once welled up high against the pre- cipitous slopes on either hand ; for the marks extend almost from the ...
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... miles in length - we pass to examine the deposits on the lowlands . Those which occur in the neigh- bourhood of the Lake of Zurich may be taken as an example , for here we are on ground which is classic in the history of the work of ice ...
... miles in length - we pass to examine the deposits on the lowlands . Those which occur in the neigh- bourhood of the Lake of Zurich may be taken as an example , for here we are on ground which is classic in the history of the work of ice ...
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... miles below Zurich , near Killwangen , where ex- cavations have been opened in a gently shelving slope near the railway station . In one of the pits , the lower part , some fourteen feet in thickness , con- sists of stratified gravel ...
... miles below Zurich , near Killwangen , where ex- cavations have been opened in a gently shelving slope near the railway station . In one of the pits , the lower part , some fourteen feet in thickness , con- sists of stratified gravel ...
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... miles of Lyons . It is estimated that altogether the ancient glacier of the Rhone was not less than 270 miles in length . The glaciers on the southern sides of the Alps were hardly less extensive than on the northern . They descended ...
... miles of Lyons . It is estimated that altogether the ancient glacier of the Rhone was not less than 270 miles in length . The glaciers on the southern sides of the Alps were hardly less extensive than on the northern . They descended ...
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