Man and the Glacial PeriodKegan Paul, 1892 - 385 pagini |
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... limits , and that others existed upon the highlands of Scotland and British America , and at one time covered a large part of the British Isles , the whole of British America , and a considerable area in the northern part of the United ...
... limits , and that others existed upon the highlands of Scotland and British America , and at one time covered a large part of the British Isles , the whole of British America , and a considerable area in the northern part of the United ...
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... limit of a glacier's motion is determined by the forces which fix the point at which its final melting takes place . This will therefore depend upon both the warmth of the weather and upon the amount of ice . If the ice is abundant , it ...
... limit of a glacier's motion is determined by the forces which fix the point at which its final melting takes place . This will therefore depend upon both the warmth of the weather and upon the amount of ice . If the ice is abundant , it ...
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... limit to the number of medial moraines , except in the number of tributaries . A medial moraine , when of sufficient thickness , pro- tects the ice underneath it from melting ; so that the moraine will often appear to be much larger ...
... limit to the number of medial moraines , except in the number of tributaries . A medial moraine , when of sufficient thickness , pro- tects the ice underneath it from melting ; so that the moraine will often appear to be much larger ...
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... limits the snow - fall . Long before they reach the central plateau of Asia , the currents of air which sweep over the continent from the Indian Ocean have parted with their burdens of moisture , having left them in a snowy mantle upon ...
... limits the snow - fall . Long before they reach the central plateau of Asia , the currents of air which sweep over the continent from the Indian Ocean have parted with their burdens of moisture , having left them in a snowy mantle upon ...
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... limit of the land that has borne it up , pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown arctic space ! " It is thus , and only thus , that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this great glacier . I had looked in my own ...
... limit of the land that has borne it up , pouring out a mighty frozen torrent into unknown arctic space ! " It is thus , and only thus , that we must form a just conception of a phenomenon like this great glacier . I had looked in my own ...
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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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