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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... Frontal Dip ... Surfaces of Detrusion in Iron Turnings , attended with Vertical Accumulation of Material . XIX . SIXTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1850 ] • Observations on the Movement of the Mer de Glace ...
... Frontal Dip ... Surfaces of Detrusion in Iron Turnings , attended with Vertical Accumulation of Material . XIX . SIXTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1850 ] • Observations on the Movement of the Mer de Glace ...
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... frontal dip is the least conspicuous part of the phenomenon ; and if it ter- minate in an icy cascade , as in the second case , it might escape observation altogether . The vertical planes parallel to the length , or nearly so , usurp ...
... frontal dip is the least conspicuous part of the phenomenon ; and if it ter- minate in an icy cascade , as in the second case , it might escape observation altogether . The vertical planes parallel to the length , or nearly so , usurp ...
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... frontal dip of the structural planes of all glaciers diminishes towards their inferior extremity , where it approaches 0 , or even inclines outwards , since there the whole pressure of the semifluid mass is unsustained by any barrier ...
... frontal dip of the structural planes of all glaciers diminishes towards their inferior extremity , where it approaches 0 , or even inclines outwards , since there the whole pressure of the semifluid mass is unsustained by any barrier ...
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... frontal dip of the veined structure in this part of the glacier . These periodical undulations ( to use a technical scientific term ) are , beyond question , very important in the theory of glaciers generally , and of the dirt bands in ...
... frontal dip of the veined structure in this part of the glacier . These periodical undulations ( to use a technical scientific term ) are , beyond question , very important in the theory of glaciers generally , and of the dirt bands in ...
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... frontal dip in glaciers . But this is quite natural and conformable to the very different constitution of a glacier ; and , in particular , it corresponds to the fact so often urged as a diffi- culty to the semifluid theory of glaciers ...
... frontal dip in glaciers . But this is quite natural and conformable to the very different constitution of a glacier ; and , in particular , it corresponds to the fact so often urged as a diffi- culty to the semifluid theory of glaciers ...
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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