Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... possibly be due to some other agency ; but if due care be taken to avoid mistakes , the aforesaid marks indicate the path of a glacier as certainly as our footprints on the sand show that some one 14 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... possibly be due to some other agency ; but if due care be taken to avoid mistakes , the aforesaid marks indicate the path of a glacier as certainly as our footprints on the sand show that some one 14 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
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Thomas George Bonney. as our footprints on the sand show that some one has been walking on the sea - shore . We must now proceed to examine the valleys below the ends of the glaciers . In such a mountain- chain as the Alps , the evidence ...
Thomas George Bonney. as our footprints on the sand show that some one has been walking on the sea - shore . We must now proceed to examine the valleys below the ends of the glaciers . In such a mountain- chain as the Alps , the evidence ...
Pagina 19
... little plain near the Mattmark Hotel , which measures about 50 feet each way . A quantity of mud , sand , and small stones is mingled with the coarser materials in the moraines . In ALPINE GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST 19.
... little plain near the Mattmark Hotel , which measures about 50 feet each way . A quantity of mud , sand , and small stones is mingled with the coarser materials in the moraines . In ALPINE GLACIERS , PRESENT AND PAST 19.
Pagina 20
... sand , so as to be a dull grey in colour . It is well known that fine mud , grit , and small stones are common on the surface of glaciers . This material is swept down from the barer cliffs of the mountains . by snow avalanches or ...
... sand , so as to be a dull grey in colour . It is well known that fine mud , grit , and small stones are common on the surface of glaciers . This material is swept down from the barer cliffs of the mountains . by snow avalanches or ...
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... sand , in which smaller pebbles occasionally form a seam , but generally are scattered sparsely . This finer material is seen to underlie the gravel for a depth of 6 to 8 feet , and beneath it comes a mass of earthy stuff , including ...
... sand , in which smaller pebbles occasionally form a seam , but generally are scattered sparsely . This finer material is seen to underlie the gravel for a depth of 6 to 8 feet , and beneath it comes a mass of earthy stuff , including ...
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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