Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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... similar scene . The ice , as has been said , is at first comparatively smooth and free from débris . Here and there , how- ever , a solitary boulder forms a black spot on its pure surface , or a small scatter of them trails forth from ...
... similar scene . The ice , as has been said , is at first comparatively smooth and free from débris . Here and there , how- ever , a solitary boulder forms a black spot on its pure surface , or a small scatter of them trails forth from ...
Pagina 17
... similar testimony , though it is not always written in characters equally distinct . In some districts the rocks disintegrate more easily , the valleys are wider , their floor is buried beneath gravel and alluvium , their sloping sides ...
... similar testimony , though it is not always written in characters equally distinct . In some districts the rocks disintegrate more easily , the valleys are wider , their floor is buried beneath gravel and alluvium , their sloping sides ...
Pagina 18
... Similar boulders - though generally not so large - may be traced along the shore of Lake Leman , even down to Geneva . Here and there may be found a peculiar mottled green and white rock , which has started on its journey from crags on ...
... Similar boulders - though generally not so large - may be traced along the shore of Lake Leman , even down to Geneva . Here and there may be found a peculiar mottled green and white rock , which has started on its journey from crags on ...
Pagina 23
... Similar narrow plains may often be observed in the upper parts of valleys , the heads of which are occupied by glaciers , as , for example , between Saas - im - grund and the Mattmark Hotel ; but as the torrent is constantly adding ...
... Similar narrow plains may often be observed in the upper parts of valleys , the heads of which are occupied by glaciers , as , for example , between Saas - im - grund and the Mattmark Hotel ; but as the torrent is constantly adding ...
Pagina 24
... similar position ; about the last fifty yards rests on the stony bed of the Arve valley , the remainder lies on rocky slopes . In front of it there is an extensive area , now covered with boulders , which , within the last few years ...
... similar position ; about the last fifty yards rests on the stony bed of the Arve valley , the remainder lies on rocky slopes . In front of it there is an extensive area , now covered with boulders , which , within the last few years ...
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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