Man and the Glacial PeriodKegan Paul, 1892 - 385 pagini |
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... transporting rocks and earthy débris of all grades of fineness ; but , owing to the different consistencies of ice . and water , there are great differences in the mode and result of transportation by them . While water can hold . in ...
... transporting rocks and earthy débris of all grades of fineness ; but , owing to the different consistencies of ice . and water , there are great differences in the mode and result of transportation by them . While water can hold . in ...
Pagina 51
... Transported boulders left in such positions and of such size as to preclude the sufficiency of water - carriage to account for them . 4. Extensive gravel terraces bordering the valleys which emerge from the glaciated areas . will ...
... Transported boulders left in such positions and of such size as to preclude the sufficiency of water - carriage to account for them . 4. Extensive gravel terraces bordering the valleys which emerge from the glaciated areas . will ...
Pagina 53
... transporting capacity of running water is in inverse ratio to the sixth power of its velocity . Other things being equal , if the velocity be doubled , the size of the grains of sand or gravel which it transports is in- creased sixty ...
... transporting capacity of running water is in inverse ratio to the sixth power of its velocity . Other things being equal , if the velocity be doubled , the size of the grains of sand or gravel which it transports is in- creased sixty ...
Pagina 56
... Transported boulders . Where there is a current of water deep enough to float . large masses of ice , there is scarcely any limit to the size of boulders which may be transported upon them , or to FIG . 23. - Vessel Rock , a glacial ...
... Transported boulders . Where there is a current of water deep enough to float . large masses of ice , there is scarcely any limit to the size of boulders which may be transported upon them , or to FIG . 23. - Vessel Rock , a glacial ...
Pagina 57
... transported by ice from distant places . Owing to the fact that large masses of rocks , especially those which are crystalline , are seldom homogeneous in their structure , it . results that , under the slow action of disintegrating and ...
... transported by ice from distant places . Owing to the fact that large masses of rocks , especially those which are crystalline , are seldom homogeneous in their structure , it . results that , under the slow action of disintegrating and ...
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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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