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... feet ) , but at another point the depth was estimated by him to be four hundred and sixty metres ( or fifteen hun- dred and eighty - four feet ) . The glaciers of the Alps are mostly confined to the northern side and to the higher ...
... feet ) , but at another point the depth was estimated by him to be four hundred and sixty metres ( or fifteen hun- dred and eighty - four feet ) . The glaciers of the Alps are mostly confined to the northern side and to the higher ...
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... feet above the sea , over which the ice - field is continuous . Four great glaciers here descend to tide - wa- ter in Magdalena Bay . The largest of these presents at the front a wall of ice seven thousand feet across and three hundred feet ...
... feet above the sea , over which the ice - field is continuous . Four great glaciers here descend to tide - wa- ter in Magdalena Bay . The largest of these presents at the front a wall of ice seven thousand feet across and three hundred feet ...
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... feet in height , formed the usual edge of the coast . " But the motion of the ice is very slow , and the ice coarse - grained in structure , and it bears a small amount only of morainic material . So low is here the line of perpetual ...
... feet in height , formed the usual edge of the coast . " But the motion of the ice is very slow , and the ice coarse - grained in structure , and it bears a small amount only of morainic material . So low is here the line of perpetual ...
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... feet above tide , where it is three miles wide and two hundred and fifty feet thick . Oceanica . - Passing eastward to the islands of the Pa- cific Ocean , New Zealand is the only one capable of sup- porting glaciers . Their existence ...
... feet above tide , where it is three miles wide and two hundred and fifty feet thick . Oceanica . - Passing eastward to the islands of the Pa- cific Ocean , New Zealand is the only one capable of sup- porting glaciers . Their existence ...
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... feet in total height . " In Tierra del Fuego , where the mountains are only from three thousand to four thousand feet in height and in latitude less than 55 ° , Darwin reports that " every val- ley is filled with streams of ice ...
... feet in total height . " In Tierra del Fuego , where the mountains are only from three thousand to four thousand feet in height and in latitude less than 55 ° , Darwin reports that " every val- ley is filled with streams of ice ...
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