Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... seen , as we have said , travelling down the glacier ; as it retreats , such blocks are occasionally stranded , either on the sloping flanks of the valley , or on some prominent hummock of rock which previously had been concealed ...
... seen , as we have said , travelling down the glacier ; as it retreats , such blocks are occasionally stranded , either on the sloping flanks of the valley , or on some prominent hummock of rock which previously had been concealed ...
Pagina 17
... seen , the great ice - stream formerly passed on to the lowlands in the same general direction as is taken by the present river . Every valley in the Alps affords similar testimony , though it is not always written in characters equally ...
... seen , the great ice - stream formerly passed on to the lowlands in the same general direction as is taken by the present river . Every valley in the Alps affords similar testimony , though it is not always written in characters equally ...
Pagina 18
... seen practically in contact . Numbers have been broken up for building , road - metalling , and wayside posts . The volume of the largest is estimated at 60,480 cubic feet , and on its flat top a pavilion has been built . Similar ...
... seen practically in contact . Numbers have been broken up for building , road - metalling , and wayside posts . The volume of the largest is estimated at 60,480 cubic feet , and on its flat top a pavilion has been built . Similar ...
Pagina 24
... seen in 1875 at the end of the Glacier des Bois . At that time it just reached the level bed of the Arve valley , and reclined on ice - worn rocks , with its end fitted into a sort of glen or ravine not more than about thirty yards ...
... seen in 1875 at the end of the Glacier des Bois . At that time it just reached the level bed of the Arve valley , and reclined on ice - worn rocks , with its end fitted into a sort of glen or ravine not more than about thirty yards ...
Pagina 26
... 1 Fresh sections can be seen by the side of a little path which turns off from the highroad just before the bridge at the entrance to Reichenau from Chur . to be about one - half of the whole mass 26 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
... 1 Fresh sections can be seen by the side of a little path which turns off from the highroad just before the bridge at the entrance to Reichenau from Chur . to be about one - half of the whole mass 26 ICE - WORK , PRESENT AND PAST.
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