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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... Crevasses ... Both Veined Structure and Crevasses renewed from time to time ... The Motion of a Glacier resembles that of a Viscid Fluid -- Objections to the Dilatation Theory ...... . What the Cold of Winter may be supposed to ...
... Crevasses ... Both Veined Structure and Crevasses renewed from time to time ... The Motion of a Glacier resembles that of a Viscid Fluid -- Objections to the Dilatation Theory ...... . What the Cold of Winter may be supposed to ...
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... Crevasses ... Law of Velocities ... Ablation of the Surface ... Plasticity ; Veined Structure . Addition on the Plasticity of Ice on the Small Scale * From the Philosophical Transactions . Page 68 77 95 119 167 ' XIV . ELEVENTH LETTER ...
... Crevasses ... Law of Velocities ... Ablation of the Surface ... Plasticity ; Veined Structure . Addition on the Plasticity of Ice on the Small Scale * From the Philosophical Transactions . Page 68 77 95 119 167 ' XIV . ELEVENTH LETTER ...
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... Crevasses , Veined Structure . XVII . FOURTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1847 ] On the Variation of the Motion at different Seasons ... Obser- vations on the Glacier of the Aar , considered and com- pared ...
... Crevasses , Veined Structure . XVII . FOURTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1847 ] On the Variation of the Motion at different Seasons ... Obser- vations on the Glacier of the Aar , considered and com- pared ...
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... Crevasses- Analogy to Slaty Cleavage in Rocks - Physical Cause of both perhaps similar . † THE object of the present short communication is little more than to announce and describe a peculiarity which the Ice of Glaciers frequently ...
... Crevasses- Analogy to Slaty Cleavage in Rocks - Physical Cause of both perhaps similar . † THE object of the present short communication is little more than to announce and describe a peculiarity which the Ice of Glaciers frequently ...
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... crevasses by which the glacier is inter- sected , as far as we could distinctly see , but , coming to a great excavation in the ice , at least 20 feet deep , formed by running water , we found the vertical strata or bands perfectly well ...
... crevasses by which the glacier is inter- sected , as far as we could distinctly see , but , coming to a great excavation in the ice , at least 20 feet deep , formed by running water , we found the vertical strata or bands perfectly well ...
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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