Ice-works, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1896 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 8
... western valleys of the New Zealand Alps around Aorangi is comparatively small , while on those of the eastern side it is very large , covering the ice- streams for about a quarter of their whole length , and piled up in heaps or ...
... western valleys of the New Zealand Alps around Aorangi is comparatively small , while on those of the eastern side it is very large , covering the ice- streams for about a quarter of their whole length , and piled up in heaps or ...
Pagina 17
... western side of the Kirchet lies the level delta of the Lake of Brienz , over the site of which , as will presently be seen , the great ice - stream formerly passed on to the lowlands in the same general direction as is taken by the ...
... western side of the Kirchet lies the level delta of the Lake of Brienz , over the site of which , as will presently be seen , the great ice - stream formerly passed on to the lowlands in the same general direction as is taken by the ...
Pagina 42
... western coast which is south of latitude 71 ° . In geographical position it corresponds roughly with the portion of Scandinavia which lies between the North Cape and Bergen . The comparison , however , may be pressed further . Such as ...
... western coast which is south of latitude 71 ° . In geographical position it corresponds roughly with the portion of Scandinavia which lies between the North Cape and Bergen . The comparison , however , may be pressed further . Such as ...
Pagina 50
... western one , affords indu- bitable evidence that the amount of ice in Greenland is less at the present time than at some earlier epoch . In the neighbourhood of Scoresby Sound , according to Lieutenant Ryder's report , moraines ...
... western one , affords indu- bitable evidence that the amount of ice in Greenland is less at the present time than at some earlier epoch . In the neighbourhood of Scoresby Sound , according to Lieutenant Ryder's report , moraines ...
Pagina 52
... western coast , can be traced back inland for distances of from thirty to fifty miles , widening out fan - fashion into huge glacier basins . These are divided by rounded upland spurs , which rise for about 5000 to over 6000 feet above ...
... western coast , can be traced back inland for distances of from thirty to fifty miles , widening out fan - fashion into huge glacier basins . These are divided by rounded upland spurs , which rise for about 5000 to over 6000 feet above ...
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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