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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... breadth of these varies from a small fraction of an inch to several inches . The more porous of these bands are the likeliest vehicles for the transmission of water from the higher to the lower part of a glacier ; and that opinion ...
... breadth of these varies from a small fraction of an inch to several inches . The more porous of these bands are the likeliest vehicles for the transmission of water from the higher to the lower part of a glacier ; and that opinion ...
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... breadth in proportion to its length ) , developed in a manner so clear and so geometrically precise , as gave me the most lively satisfaction . I refer to my former paper for the figure and description of that structure ; I have found ...
... breadth in proportion to its length ) , developed in a manner so clear and so geometrically precise , as gave me the most lively satisfaction . I refer to my former paper for the figure and description of that structure ; I have found ...
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... breadth of the glacier , and only in the centre is a narrow space , where not unfrequently the structure appears quite undefined . I have satisfactorily made out , however , in every glacier which I have had the means of examining with ...
... breadth of the glacier , and only in the centre is a narrow space , where not unfrequently the structure appears quite undefined . I have satisfactorily made out , however , in every glacier which I have had the means of examining with ...
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... breadth , no vertical structure is developed . On the other hand , the friction of the base determines an apparent stratifica- tion , parallel to the slope down which they fall . 6. It also follows immediately ( assuming it as a fact ...
... breadth , no vertical structure is developed . On the other hand , the friction of the base determines an apparent stratifica- tion , parallel to the slope down which they fall . 6. It also follows immediately ( assuming it as a fact ...
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... breadth as the ice grows older , coinciding again with the fact which I formerly established , that the higher part of a glacier moves , generally speaking , more slowly than its lower extremity . The different states of the glacier at ...
... breadth as the ice grows older , coinciding again with the fact which I formerly established , that the higher part of a glacier moves , generally speaking , more slowly than its lower extremity . The different states of the glacier at ...
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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