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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... Continuity of Motion ... Motion accelerated in Fine Weather - Excess of Central Velocity of the Glacier ... Motion of Glaciers of Second Order , and of Snow Beds . XI . ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIER MOTION . * - PART I ...
... Continuity of Motion ... Motion accelerated in Fine Weather - Excess of Central Velocity of the Glacier ... Motion of Glaciers of Second Order , and of Snow Beds . XI . ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIER MOTION . * - PART I ...
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... continuity under a changed form , was an argument in favour of my inter- pretation of the similar fact occurring in glaciers on a great scale , which appeared to me likely to remove some natural pre- possessions , as well as to throw ...
... continuity under a changed form , was an argument in favour of my inter- pretation of the similar fact occurring in glaciers on a great scale , which appeared to me likely to remove some natural pre- possessions , as well as to throw ...
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... continuity , or recovering it by re - attachment after its parts have suffered a bruise , according to the violence of the action to which it has been exposed , " p . 166. " In this condition [ on the ' very border of thawing ...
... continuity , or recovering it by re - attachment after its parts have suffered a bruise , according to the violence of the action to which it has been exposed , " p . 166. " In this condition [ on the ' very border of thawing ...
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... continuity ; ( 2 ) the reunion by pellucid ice of the surfaces rent by the bruising action producing the veined structure ; ( 3 ) the transformation of the névé into per- fect ice . On the first point I had early come to the conclusion ...
... continuity ; ( 2 ) the reunion by pellucid ice of the surfaces rent by the bruising action producing the veined structure ; ( 3 ) the transformation of the névé into per- fect ice . On the first point I had early come to the conclusion ...
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... continuity perpendicular to its sides . If two persons hold a sheet of paper , so as to be tense , by the four corners , and one moves two adjacent corners , whilst the other two remain at rest , or move less fast , the tendency will be ...
... continuity perpendicular to its sides . If two persons hold a sheet of paper , so as to be tense , by the four corners , and one moves two adjacent corners , whilst the other two remain at rest , or move less fast , the tendency will be ...
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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