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... facts bearing upon the subject on both continents . Of course , the chapters of the present volume relating to America cover much of the same ground gone over in the previous treatise ; but the matter has been entirely re- written and ...
... facts bearing upon the subject on both continents . Of course , the chapters of the present volume relating to America cover much of the same ground gone over in the previous treatise ; but the matter has been entirely re- written and ...
Pagina vi
... facts will bring about what is scarcely less than a revolution in the views generally prevalent relating to the subject of which he treats . For the glacial facts relating to France and Switzer- land I am indebted largely to M. Falsan's ...
... facts will bring about what is scarcely less than a revolution in the views generally prevalent relating to the subject of which he treats . For the glacial facts relating to France and Switzer- land I am indebted largely to M. Falsan's ...
Pagina 1
... facts which have been rapidly accumulating during the past few years relating to the Glacial period and to its connection with human history . Before speaking of the number and present extent of existing glaciers , it will be profitable ...
... facts which have been rapidly accumulating during the past few years relating to the Glacial period and to its connection with human history . Before speaking of the number and present extent of existing glaciers , it will be profitable ...
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... fact , more than fifteen thousand feet high . The mouth of the amphi- theatre is three miles wide , in a line extending from shoulder to shoulder of the low mountains which guard it . The actual water - front where the ice meets tide ...
... fact , more than fifteen thousand feet high . The mouth of the amphi- theatre is three miles wide , in a line extending from shoulder to shoulder of the low mountains which guard it . The actual water - front where the ice meets tide ...
Pagina 40
... fact , down the valleys and fiords of Greenland by force of the superincumbent weight of snow , just as does the grain on the floor of a barn ( as admirably described by Mr. Jamieson ) when another sackful is emp- tied on the top of the ...
... fact , down the valleys and fiords of Greenland by force of the superincumbent weight of snow , just as does the grain on the floor of a barn ( as admirably described by Mr. Jamieson ) when another sackful is emp- tied on the top of the ...
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8vo Parchment Library A. E. WAITE accumulation Alps America animals basin boulder-clay boulders cave channel clay coast containing County Crown 8vo débris depth drainage drift east elevation Elzevir 8vo Parchment England erosion Europe evidence extending Fcap Fifth Edition flints Fort Snelling Fourth Edition Frontispiece Geological glacial deposits Glacial epoch glacial ice glacial motion Glacial period glaciated area glaciated region glaciers Grammar gravel Greenland height hills hundred feet Ice age ice-sheet Illustrations implements Irish Sea Island Lake Lake Agassiz land latitude loess mass miles Mountains névé northern northward numerous Ohio Parchment or cloth Pliocene portion Post 8vo preglacial present Professor Rhône Glacier ridges River rocks Rocky sand Sanskrit Second Edition shells side southern southward species strata streams subsidence surface terminal moraine terraces Tertiary Thenay theory Third Edition thousand feet tion Translated tributary Trübner's Oriental Series valley Vellum vicinity vols western
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