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... MOTION 43-50 CHAPTER IV . SIGNS OF PAST GLACIATION · 51-65 CHAPTER V. ANCIENT GLACIERS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE New England ; New York , New Jersey , and Pennsyl- vania ; the Mississippi Basin ; west of the Rocky Mountains . CHAPTER VI ...
... MOTION 43-50 CHAPTER IV . SIGNS OF PAST GLACIATION · 51-65 CHAPTER V. ANCIENT GLACIERS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE New England ; New York , New Jersey , and Pennsyl- vania ; the Mississippi Basin ; west of the Rocky Mountains . CHAPTER VI ...
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... motion 17. Line of most rapid glacial motion 18. Diagram showing retardation of the bottom of a glacier 19. Bed - rock scored with glacial marks 20. Scratched stone from the till of Boston 21. Typical section of till in Seattle , Wash ...
... motion 17. Line of most rapid glacial motion 18. Diagram showing retardation of the bottom of a glacier 19. Bed - rock scored with glacial marks 20. Scratched stone from the till of Boston 21. Typical section of till in Seattle , Wash ...
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... motion will come up for state- ment and discussion later . It is sufficient here to say that ice has a capacity of movement similar to that possessed by such plastic substances as cold molasses , wax , tar , or cooling lava . The limit ...
... motion will come up for state- ment and discussion later . It is sufficient here to say that ice has a capacity of movement similar to that possessed by such plastic substances as cold molasses , wax , tar , or cooling lava . The limit ...
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... motion . On close investigation , however , it is found that the veins are always at right angles to the line of greatest pressure . This leads to the conclusion that pressure is the cause of the banded structure . The blue strata in ...
... motion . On close investigation , however , it is found that the veins are always at right angles to the line of greatest pressure . This leads to the conclusion that pressure is the cause of the banded structure . The blue strata in ...
Pagina 5
... motion , while successive accessions of material keep up the supply at any one point , so as to form a train of boulders and other débris , extending below the point as far as the glacial motion continues . When it Such a line of débris ...
... motion , while successive accessions of material keep up the supply at any one point , so as to form a train of boulders and other débris , extending below the point as far as the glacial motion continues . When it Such a line of débris ...
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