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... stream flowing out of the névé field - are somewhat like the begin- nings of the movement of the water from a great lake into its outlet . The névé is the reservoir from which the glacier gets both its supply of ice and the impulse ...
... stream flowing out of the névé field - are somewhat like the begin- nings of the movement of the water from a great lake into its outlet . The névé is the reservoir from which the glacier gets both its supply of ice and the impulse ...
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... stream at the top , cracks open e along the line of tension , and S wedge - shaped fissures are formed ex- FIG . 5. - c , c , show fissures and seracs where the glacier tending from moves down the steeper portion of its incline ; 8 , 8 ...
... stream at the top , cracks open e along the line of tension , and S wedge - shaped fissures are formed ex- FIG . 5. - c , c , show fissures and seracs where the glacier tending from moves down the steeper portion of its incline ; 8 , 8 ...
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... streams cut long , open channels near the end of the glacier , and sweep into it vast quantities of morainic mate ... stream has disappeared far back in the glacier , and plunged into a crevasse ( technically called a moulin ) , whence ...
... streams cut long , open channels near the end of the glacier , and sweep into it vast quantities of morainic mate ... stream has disappeared far back in the glacier , and plunged into a crevasse ( technically called a moulin ) , whence ...
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... streams , descend- ing from the high névé plateau , spread themselves out over the mountain - slopes , " and are not , as in the Alps , confined to definite valleys . 66 Iceland seems to have been properly named , since a single one of ...
... streams , descend- ing from the high névé plateau , spread themselves out over the mountain - slopes , " and are not , as in the Alps , confined to definite valleys . 66 Iceland seems to have been properly named , since a single one of ...
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... streams in their origin , as are their larger tributary branches - the Basha , the Shigar , and the Sutlej . Many of the glaciers in the higher levels of the Himalaya Mountains where these streams rise have a length of from twenty ...
... streams in their origin , as are their larger tributary branches - the Basha , the Shigar , and the Sutlej . Many of the glaciers in the higher levels of the Himalaya Mountains where these streams rise have a length of from twenty ...
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