Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina ix
... nearly twenty years I have written mostly on petrological subjects , I have never obeyed the well - known dictum and wholly cast off the old love . In the later part of the book a method is indicated . by which , I believe , we can ...
... nearly twenty years I have written mostly on petrological subjects , I have never obeyed the well - known dictum and wholly cast off the old love . In the later part of the book a method is indicated . by which , I believe , we can ...
Pagina 4
... nearly a plain , and its surface is almost unbroken . It is only as the slope steepens , on approaching the base of the actual peaks or the foot of the curtain walls , that crevasses become frequent . Then the frozen snow , for here it ...
... nearly a plain , and its surface is almost unbroken . It is only as the slope steepens , on approaching the base of the actual peaks or the foot of the curtain walls , that crevasses become frequent . Then the frozen snow , for here it ...
Pagina 8
... nearly along the slope of the beds ; the cliffs are low , and débris does not roll far ; while on the eastern face the rock structure lends itself to the formation of great precipices , from which masses are continually dislodged , to ...
... nearly along the slope of the beds ; the cliffs are low , and débris does not roll far ; while on the eastern face the rock structure lends itself to the formation of great precipices , from which masses are continually dislodged , to ...
Pagina 24
... nearly similar position ; about the last fifty yards rests on the stony bed of the Arve valley , the remainder lies on rocky slopes . In front of it there is an extensive area , now covered with boulders , which , within the last few ...
... nearly similar position ; about the last fifty yards rests on the stony bed of the Arve valley , the remainder lies on rocky slopes . In front of it there is an extensive area , now covered with boulders , which , within the last few ...
Pagina 26
... nearly 100 cubic feet downwards , together with a few , usually more rounded , of granitoid rock , are embedded in an earthy material full of fragments , which commonly range downwards from a cubic inch to one sixty - fourth of the same ...
... nearly 100 cubic feet downwards , together with a few , usually more rounded , of granitoid rock , are embedded in an earthy material full of fragments , which commonly range downwards from a cubic inch to one sixty - fourth of the same ...
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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