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... upper portion . Its lower portion terminates at an altitude of 16,000 feet above tide , where it is three miles wide and two hundred and fifty feet thick . Oceanica . - Passing eastward to the islands of the Pa- cific Ocean , New ...
... upper portion . Its lower portion terminates at an altitude of 16,000 feet above tide , where it is three miles wide and two hundred and fifty feet thick . Oceanica . - Passing eastward to the islands of the Pa- cific Ocean , New ...
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... upper side of these rocky prominences is such as to push it in great masses above the surrounding level , after the analogy of waves which dash themselves into foam against similar obstructions . In front of the nunataks there is uni ...
... upper side of these rocky prominences is such as to push it in great masses above the surrounding level , after the analogy of waves which dash themselves into foam against similar obstructions . In front of the nunataks there is uni ...
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... upper strata of ice move faster than the lower . Hence the tendency is constantly to push the upper strata for- wards , so as to produce a perpendicular or even projecting front , after the analogy of the formation of breakers on the ...
... upper strata of ice move faster than the lower . Hence the tendency is constantly to push the upper strata for- wards , so as to produce a perpendicular or even projecting front , after the analogy of the formation of breakers on the ...
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... upper strata slide over the lower , and , where the water is of sufficient depth and the motion is sufficiently great , the crest breaks down in foam before the ever - advancing tide . A similar phenomenon occurs when dams give way and ...
... upper strata slide over the lower , and , where the water is of sufficient depth and the motion is sufficiently great , the crest breaks down in foam before the ever - advancing tide . A similar phenomenon occurs when dams give way and ...
Pagina 59
... upper limit of boulders at G being 1,500 feet higher than the limits at I or K on the left and right , points distant about one hundred miles from each other . All the boulders to the right of the line from B to G have been derived from ...
... upper limit of boulders at G being 1,500 feet higher than the limits at I or K on the left and right , points distant about one hundred miles from each other . All the boulders to the right of the line from B to G have been derived from ...
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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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