Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina ix
... the climate was distinctly colder than it is at the present time , and some probably fall within the Glacial Epoch . But as their connection with ice is less obvious and the Glacial Epoch did not begin with PREFACE ix.
... the climate was distinctly colder than it is at the present time , and some probably fall within the Glacial Epoch . But as their connection with ice is less obvious and the Glacial Epoch did not begin with PREFACE ix.
Pagina 27
... probably more than once . For the moment , however , we shall refrain from entering into the details of this question , and shall content ourselves with describing the nature and general relations of the associated deposits . The first ...
... probably more than once . For the moment , however , we shall refrain from entering into the details of this question , and shall content ourselves with describing the nature and general relations of the associated deposits . The first ...
Pagina 32
... more or less angular , often from 15 to 18 inches , and occasionally even 3 feet in diameter , but a block of true Nagelfluh which was lying in the excavation measured quite a couple of yards . Probably 32 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... more or less angular , often from 15 to 18 inches , and occasionally even 3 feet in diameter , but a block of true Nagelfluh which was lying in the excavation measured quite a couple of yards . Probably 32 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
Pagina 33
Thomas George Bonney. the excavation measured quite a couple of yards . Probably the morainic stuff was once much thicker , and has been reduced by sub - aërial if not by fluviatile denudation . The pressure of the ice , which seems here ...
Thomas George Bonney. the excavation measured quite a couple of yards . Probably the morainic stuff was once much thicker , and has been reduced by sub - aërial if not by fluviatile denudation . The pressure of the ice , which seems here ...
Pagina 39
... probably not higher than 4 ° F. - while the cold during the long winter months is intense , the January temperature about latitude 70 ° being often as low as 32 ° . It is not probable that the climate in any part of Europe during the ...
... probably not higher than 4 ° F. - while the cold during the long winter months is intense , the January temperature about latitude 70 ° being often as low as 32 ° . It is not probable that the climate in any part of Europe during the ...
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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