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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... Grindelwald , probably corresponding to the position of the Dirt - Bands ... An Ancient Moraine at Chamouni . VII . SIXTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to the Right Honourable EARL CATHCART [ 1844 ] • Analogies of Glaciers to Lava ...
... Grindelwald , probably corresponding to the position of the Dirt - Bands ... An Ancient Moraine at Chamouni . VII . SIXTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to the Right Honourable EARL CATHCART [ 1844 ] • Analogies of Glaciers to Lava ...
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... Grindelwald , probably corresponding to the position of the Dirt - Bands - An Ancient Moraine at Chamouni . ROME , 29th January 1844 . My Lord - In reply to your kind letter of the 14th Decem- ber last , requesting me to communicate to ...
... Grindelwald , probably corresponding to the position of the Dirt - Bands - An Ancient Moraine at Chamouni . ROME , 29th January 1844 . My Lord - In reply to your kind letter of the 14th Decem- ber last , requesting me to communicate to ...
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... cannot be individually seen . The conclusion from this is , that the surface of a glacier is not an inclined plane , nor an inclined 1844. ] WRINKLES OF THE ICE - GLACIER OF GRINDELWALD 40 [ 1844 . FIFTH LETTER ON GLACIERS .
... cannot be individually seen . The conclusion from this is , that the surface of a glacier is not an inclined plane , nor an inclined 1844. ] WRINKLES OF THE ICE - GLACIER OF GRINDELWALD 40 [ 1844 . FIFTH LETTER ON GLACIERS .
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... GRINDELWALD . 41 convex surface , but that it is indented by furrows or wrinkles , which would give a section like fig . 7 , in a direction parallel to the length of the glacier A B , fig . 6 , the dots here indicating the snow wreaths ...
... GRINDELWALD . 41 convex surface , but that it is indented by furrows or wrinkles , which would give a section like fig . 7 , in a direction parallel to the length of the glacier A B , fig . 6 , the dots here indicating the snow wreaths ...
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... Grindelwald and the Jungfrau bear ample testimony to the general fact , that the structure of glaciers is developed during their progression , and after their primitive stratification has been annihilated , by their being projected in ...
... Grindelwald and the Jungfrau bear ample testimony to the general fact , that the structure of glaciers is developed during their progression , and after their primitive stratification has been annihilated , by their being projected in ...
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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