Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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Thomas George Bonney. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIG . Ice - worn Rocks in the Gorge of the Aar below the Grimsel Hospice Frontispiece PAGE I. Perched Block on Ice - worn Rock Islet , Nerlungshavn , near Langesund , Norway 2. Scratched Stone ...
Thomas George Bonney. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FIG . Ice - worn Rocks in the Gorge of the Aar below the Grimsel Hospice Frontispiece PAGE I. Perched Block on Ice - worn Rock Islet , Nerlungshavn , near Langesund , Norway 2. Scratched Stone ...
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... rock . The white floor of the valley , at this meeting - place of the frozen waters , is comparatively level . It lies some two thousand feet below the snowy saddles , and above them the peaks tower up about as high again . Minor ...
... rock . The white floor of the valley , at this meeting - place of the frozen waters , is comparatively level . It lies some two thousand feet below the snowy saddles , and above them the peaks tower up about as high again . Minor ...
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... rocks in the adjacent crags and the arrangement of their divisional surfaces are always important factors . For ... rock structure lends itself to the formation of great precipices , from which masses are continually dislodged , to ...
... rocks in the adjacent crags and the arrangement of their divisional surfaces are always important factors . For ... rock structure lends itself to the formation of great precipices , from which masses are continually dislodged , to ...
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... rock which previously had been concealed beneath the ice , like a reef beneath the surface of a swollen river . FIG . 1. Perched Block on ice - worn rock islet , Nerlungshavn , near Langesund , Norway . They lie sometimes on the bare rock ...
... rock which previously had been concealed beneath the ice , like a reef beneath the surface of a swollen river . FIG . 1. Perched Block on ice - worn rock islet , Nerlungshavn , near Langesund , Norway . They lie sometimes on the bare rock ...
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... rock is scratched and striated sometimes even rather deeply scored . This also is clearly the handiwork of the ice ... rocks are carried onwards and form an armature to the lower surface of the glacier . The moraine stuff , engulfed in ...
... rock is scratched and striated sometimes even rather deeply scored . This also is clearly the handiwork of the ice ... rocks are carried onwards and form an armature to the lower surface of the glacier . The moraine stuff , engulfed in ...
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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