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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... effect of intense Pressure ... Three Orders of discontinuity , Ridges , Crevasses , Veined Structure . XVII . FOURTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1847 ] On the Variation of the Motion at different Seasons ...
... effect of intense Pressure ... Three Orders of discontinuity , Ridges , Crevasses , Veined Structure . XVII . FOURTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1847 ] On the Variation of the Motion at different Seasons ...
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... effect of intense pressure , causing simultaneous liquefaction , which commences at every point of the interior of the ice to which the pressure ex- tends ( according to a previous discovery made by them to that effect ) , and to its ...
... effect of intense pressure , causing simultaneous liquefaction , which commences at every point of the interior of the ice to which the pressure ex- tends ( according to a previous discovery made by them to that effect ) , and to its ...
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... as optical contact is attained , " p . 201. ' Multitudinous incipient fissures occasioned by the intense strain are reunited by the simple effects of time and cohesion . " Ibid . " L authentic exposition of the theory ; and this is quite.
... as optical contact is attained , " p . 201. ' Multitudinous incipient fissures occasioned by the intense strain are reunited by the simple effects of time and cohesion . " Ibid . " L authentic exposition of the theory ; and this is quite.
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... rid of the necessity for allowing this vertical dilatation , by including the ascent of the glacial surface summer . * Fourth Letter on Glaciers ( 1842 ) , p . 34 of this volume . among the direct effects of plasticity . * I considered.
... rid of the necessity for allowing this vertical dilatation , by including the ascent of the glacial surface summer . * Fourth Letter on Glaciers ( 1842 ) , p . 34 of this volume . among the direct effects of plasticity . * I considered.
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... effects of plasticity . * I considered that my theory was strengthened by being rendered so far independent of an effect which I admitted with reluctance . † There remained , however , three classes of facts requiring explanation , and ...
... effects of plasticity . * I considered that my theory was strengthened by being rendered so far independent of an effect which I admitted with reluctance . † There remained , however , three classes of facts requiring explanation , and ...
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