Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... neighbourhood of the Grimsel hospice . The little tarn beneath the precipices of the Nägelisgrätli is surrounded by billowy hum- mocks of granitic rock , " like the backs of plunging dolphins . " Far above the bed of the valley , up the ...
... neighbourhood of the Grimsel hospice . The little tarn beneath the precipices of the Nägelisgrätli is surrounded by billowy hum- mocks of granitic rock , " like the backs of plunging dolphins . " Far above the bed of the valley , up the ...
Pagina 18
... neighbourhood of the Lake of Geneva ; they are scattered over the lowland between the Alps and the Jura ; they may be traced up the flanks of the latter mountains ; on the Chasseron they reach an elevation of fully 3000 feet above the ...
... neighbourhood of the Lake of Geneva ; they are scattered over the lowland between the Alps and the Jura ; they may be traced up the flanks of the latter mountains ; on the Chasseron they reach an elevation of fully 3000 feet above the ...
Pagina 35
... neighbourhood failed to show more than slight traces of any such deposit . In short , at the time of the maximum extension of the ice - sheet , almost the whole of the Swiss lowland was buried , and the ice welled up against the flanks ...
... neighbourhood failed to show more than slight traces of any such deposit . In short , at the time of the maximum extension of the ice - sheet , almost the whole of the Swiss lowland was buried , and the ice welled up against the flanks ...
Pagina 45
... Still , in a few cases , piled - up heaps of stone occur on the ice farther inland than might have been expected . One such was observed during Nansen's expedition in the neighbourhood of the ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS 45.
... Still , in a few cases , piled - up heaps of stone occur on the ice farther inland than might have been expected . One such was observed during Nansen's expedition in the neighbourhood of the ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC ICE - SHEETS 45.
Pagina 46
Thomas George Bonney. was observed during Nansen's expedition in the neighbourhood of the " Nunataks " which bear his name . The moraine was full 4000 yards in length ; apparently it was about 500 feet high , but this magnitude proved to ...
Thomas George Bonney. was observed during Nansen's expedition in the neighbourhood of the " Nunataks " which bear his name . The moraine was full 4000 yards in length ; apparently it was about 500 feet high , but this magnitude proved to ...
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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