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... flows . Technically this motionless part is called the névé . Glacial ice is formed from snow where the annual fall is in excess of the melting power of the sun at that point . Through the influence of pressure , such as a boy applies ...
... flows . Technically this motionless part is called the névé . Glacial ice is formed from snow where the annual fall is in excess of the melting power of the sun at that point . Through the influence of pressure , such as a boy applies ...
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... flows onwards as a subglacial stream . But in this case the deposits might closely resemble those of the previous description . In both cases , when the ice has finally melted away , peculiar ridge - like deposits of sorted material ...
... flows onwards as a subglacial stream . But in this case the deposits might closely resemble those of the previous description . In both cases , when the ice has finally melted away , peculiar ridge - like deposits of sorted material ...
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... flow , in some places being a mile or more in width , and at others contracting into much narrower compass . The greatest depth which Agassiz was able directly to measure in the Aar Glacier was two hundred and sixty metres ( five ...
... flow , in some places being a mile or more in width , and at others contracting into much narrower compass . The greatest depth which Agassiz was able directly to measure in the Aar Glacier was two hundred and sixty metres ( five ...
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... flows is about three - quarters of a mile in width ; but , after emerging from the confinement of the valley , the ice spreads out over a fan - shaped area until the width of its front is nearly three miles . The supply of ice not be ...
... flows is about three - quarters of a mile in width ; but , after emerging from the confinement of the valley , the ice spreads out over a fan - shaped area until the width of its front is nearly three miles . The supply of ice not be ...
Pagina 48
... flows may greatly affect the rate in certain places . A sudden deepening of the chan- nel may affect the motion of ice in a glacier as much as it does that of water in a river . Other observations also amply sustain the conclusions of ...
... flows may greatly affect the rate in certain places . A sudden deepening of the chan- nel may affect the motion of ice in a glacier as much as it does that of water in a river . Other observations also amply sustain the conclusions of ...
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Man and the Glacial Period G. Frederick (George Frederick) Wright,Henry W. (Henry Williamson) 183 Haynes Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2016 |
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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 granite 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
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