Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers Now First Collected and Chronologically Arranged: With a Prefatory Note on the Recent Progress and Present Aspect of the TheoryA. and C. Black, 1859 - 278 páginas |
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... August last ( 1841 ) I paid my first visit to the Lower Glacier of the Aar , upon or near which I spent the greater part of three weeks in company with Professor Agassiz of Neufchatel , and Mr. J. M. Heath of Cambridge . It is ...
... August last ( 1841 ) I paid my first visit to the Lower Glacier of the Aar , upon or near which I spent the greater part of three weeks in company with Professor Agassiz of Neufchatel , and Mr. J. M. Heath of Cambridge . It is ...
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... August 1842 . My Dear Sir - Since I last wrote to you on the 4th July from Courmayeur , I have examined , in detail , the two principal glaciers of the Allée Blanche ; and having re - crossed the Alps from Courmayeur by the Col du Geant ...
... August 1842 . My Dear Sir - Since I last wrote to you on the 4th July from Courmayeur , I have examined , in detail , the two principal glaciers of the Allée Blanche ; and having re - crossed the Alps from Courmayeur by the Col du Geant ...
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... August 1842 . My Dear Sir - I arrived here two days ago by a very interesting and unfrequented route . I mentioned in my last , that M. Studer and I had agreed to eastward of the great St. Bernard . place of rendezvous , and we ...
... August 1842 . My Dear Sir - I arrived here two days ago by a very interesting and unfrequented route . I mentioned in my last , that M. Studer and I had agreed to eastward of the great St. Bernard . place of rendezvous , and we ...
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... August to the 10th September . I left it comparatively high and tumid in the centre , at no great depth below the arrête of its natural boundary , the moraine by its side ; and fissured by crevasses , deep and rather narrow , with well ...
... August to the 10th September . I left it comparatively high and tumid in the centre , at no great depth below the arrête of its natural boundary , the moraine by its side ; and fissured by crevasses , deep and rather narrow , with well ...
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... August , the glacier is most difficult to traverse ( generally speaking ) , owing to the multitude and sharpness of these cracks ; but later , the prolonged sunshine and autumnal rains not only reduce the ice to water , and thus carry ...
... August , the glacier is most difficult to traverse ( generally speaking ) , owing to the multitude and sharpness of these cracks ; but later , the prolonged sunshine and autumnal rains not only reduce the ice to water , and thus carry ...
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Alps analogy angle annual motion appears Arveiron August Balmat bands Bishop of Annecy breadth cause centre continuity convex Courmayeur crevasses curve curved bands daily motion direction dirt-bands Edinburgh Elie de Beaumont Etna evidence experiment fact feet fissures fluid fluidity friction frontal dip Glace of Chamouni Glacier des Bois glacier motion glacier moves glacier of Bossons Grindelwald hydrostatic hydrostatic pressure inches inclination July lava stream less Letter on Glaciers longitudinal lower marked mass Mean daily motion measurement Mer de Glace millimetres Mont Blanc Montanvert moraine motion of glaciers movement nearly névé observations origin parallel particles Philosophical Journal plastic Plate portion pressure produce resistance retardation rock Saussure Saussure's theory season sides sliding slope snow solid station summer surface temperature thawing theodolite theory of glaciers tion transverse Travels Trelaporte valley veined structure velocity vertical Vesuvius viscous theory volume weather whilst winter