Ice-work, Present and PastK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1903 - 295 pagini |
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Pagina 73
... origin . In my judgment they were formed by the uplifting of the northern side of a fault , or of a series of closely related faults , and received their northward inclination from the tilting of the uplifted blocks . " 1 Another point ...
... origin . In my judgment they were formed by the uplifting of the northern side of a fault , or of a series of closely related faults , and received their northward inclination from the tilting of the uplifted blocks . " 1 Another point ...
Pagina 85
... origin of the Lake of Zug , 650 feet in depth . Did the aforesaid offshoot descend from the top of the " Hollow Lane , " and thus acquire , on a slope little more than 200 feet vertical , a sufficient plunging force ; or was the work ...
... origin of the Lake of Zug , 650 feet in depth . Did the aforesaid offshoot descend from the top of the " Hollow Lane , " and thus acquire , on a slope little more than 200 feet vertical , a sufficient plunging force ; or was the work ...
Pagina 88
... origin or straggling offshoots from the main Alpine masses , must have excavated lake basins , if the hypothesis under discus- sion be correct . The Pyrenean glaciers were occa- sionally between forty and fifty miles long ; they came ...
... origin or straggling offshoots from the main Alpine masses , must have excavated lake basins , if the hypothesis under discus- sion be correct . The Pyrenean glaciers were occa- sionally between forty and fifty miles long ; they came ...
Pagina 97
... origin call attention to the fact that terraces of a rather similar kind occur at lower levels in other parts of Scotland , especially on the western coast . On that of Norway two lines of sea - marks are common , appearing as terraces ...
... origin call attention to the fact that terraces of a rather similar kind occur at lower levels in other parts of Scotland , especially on the western coast . On that of Norway two lines of sea - marks are common , appearing as terraces ...
Pagina 98
... origin , alter their level but slowly , and the facts above stated merely require that the land in rising should be tilted slightly upwards towards the north , while it remained nearly at the same level towards the west . It is admitted ...
... origin , alter their level but slowly , and the facts above stated merely require that the land in rising should be tilted slightly upwards towards the north , while it remained nearly at the same level towards the west . It is admitted ...
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Pagina 59 - It was a beautifully clear evening, and we had a most enchanting view of the two magnificent ranges of mountains, whose lofty peaks, perfectly covered with eternal snow, rose to elevations varying from seven to ten thousand feet above the level of the ocean. The glaciers that filled their intervening valleys, and which descended from near the mountain summits, projected in many places several miles into the nea, and terminated in lofty perpendicular cliffs.