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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... explained before the congelation of water in the depths of the glacier could be dis- pensed with ; —and until that ... explaining the * Travels , 1st Edit . , p . 384 ; 2d Edit . , p . 386 . † See the limitations mentioned in Travels ...
... explained before the congelation of water in the depths of the glacier could be dis- pensed with ; —and until that ... explaining the * Travels , 1st Edit . , p . 384 ; 2d Edit . , p . 386 . † See the limitations mentioned in Travels ...
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... explaining the possible congelation of water in the minuter fissures of the glacier , although since the change of views respecting the consolidation of the glacier mentioned above as adopted by me in 1846 , the congelation of water in ...
... explaining the possible congelation of water in the minuter fissures of the glacier , although since the change of views respecting the consolidation of the glacier mentioned above as adopted by me in 1846 , the congelation of water in ...
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... explaining them , I may have an opportunity of removing , in some degree , the difficulties which have arisen in the minds of candid and intelligent persons , who have studied this theory for the first time - difficulties which would ...
... explaining them , I may have an opportunity of removing , in some degree , the difficulties which have arisen in the minds of candid and intelligent persons , who have studied this theory for the first time - difficulties which would ...
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... explained . I believe that it is during the progress of the glacier thus subjected to a new and peculiar set of forces depending upon gravity , and which remodel its internal constitution , by sub- stituting hard blue ice , in the form ...
... explained . I believe that it is during the progress of the glacier thus subjected to a new and peculiar set of forces depending upon gravity , and which remodel its internal constitution , by sub- stituting hard blue ice , in the form ...
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... explained myself distinctly as respects the 1 . m N N in ' Fig . 14 . fissures produced by lateral friction , there will be little difficulty I have lately identified completely the planes of separation in the lava streams of Etna ...
... explained myself distinctly as respects the 1 . m N N in ' Fig . 14 . fissures produced by lateral friction , there will be little difficulty I have lately identified completely the planes of separation in the lava streams of Etna ...
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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