Man and the Glacial PeriodKegan Paul, 1892 - 385 pagini |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 72
Pagina 9
... thousand square kilometres ( about eleven . hundred square miles ) . The Swiss Alps alone contain . nearly two - thirds of this area . Professor Heim enumer- ates 1,155 distinct glaciers in the region . Of these , 144 are in France , 78 ...
... thousand square kilometres ( about eleven . hundred square miles ) . The Swiss Alps alone contain . nearly two - thirds of this area . Professor Heim enumer- ates 1,155 distinct glaciers in the region . Of these , 144 are in France , 78 ...
Pagina 11
... thousand feet , and all of them varying slightly in extent , from year to year , according as there are changes in the temperature and in the amount of snow - fall . The Pyrenees , also , still maintain a glacial system , but it is of ...
... thousand feet , and all of them varying slightly in extent , from year to year , according as there are changes in the temperature and in the amount of snow - fall . The Pyrenees , also , still maintain a glacial system , but it is of ...
Pagina 12
... thousand feet above the sea pretty generally are gathering - places for glaciers . From the Justedal a snow - field , covering five hundred and eighty square miles , in latitude 62 ° , twenty- four glaciers push outwards towards the ...
... thousand feet above the sea pretty generally are gathering - places for glaciers . From the Justedal a snow - field , covering five hundred and eighty square miles , in latitude 62 ° , twenty- four glaciers push outwards towards the ...
Pagina 13
... thousand 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 ...
... thousand 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 ...
Pagina 14
... thousand feet - is esti- mated by Helland to cover one hundred and fifty Nor- wegian square miles ( about seven thousand English square miles ) , while five other ice - fields ( the Langjoküll , the Hofsjoküll , the Myrdalsjoküll , the ...
... thousand feet - is esti- mated by Helland to cover one hundred and fifty Nor- wegian square miles ( about seven thousand English square miles ) , while five other ice - fields ( the Langjoküll , the Hofsjoküll , the Myrdalsjoküll , the ...
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Man and the Glacial Period G. Frederick (George Frederick) Wright,Henry W. (Henry Williamson) 183 Haynes Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2016 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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
Pasaje populare
Pagina 50 - By C. KEGAN PAUL, MA Oxon., and the Rev. ED STONE, MA, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Assistant Master at Eton. Second and revised edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BAYNES (Rev. Canon RH). At the Communion Time. A Manual for Holy Communion.
Pagina 55 - The Principles of Mental Physiology. With their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind, and the Study of its Morbid Conditions.
Pagina 49 - BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. Brave Men's Footsteps. A Book of Example and Anecdote for Young People. By the Editor of "Men who have Risen.
Pagina 34 - WORLD : a Simple Account of Man in Early Times. Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. price y. A Special Edition for Schools. Price is. THE CHILDHOOD OF RELIGIONS. Including a Simple Account of the Birth and Growth of Myths and Legends.
Pagina 69 - ELLIOTT (Ebenezer), The Corn Law Rhymer. — POEMS. Edited by his son, the Rev. Edwin Elliott, of St. John's, Antigua. 2 vols. crown 8vo.
Pagina 58 - Joseph.— Free Trade in Land. Edited by his Widow. With Preface by the Right Hon. JOHN BRIGHT, MP Sixth Edition.
Pagina 24 - Rev. T. WHITELAW, MA With Homilies by the Very Rev. JF MONTGOMERY, DD, Rev. Prof. RA REDFORD, MA, LL.B., Rev. F. HASTINGS, Rev. W.