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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... glaciers . Certain phenomena cannot be produced without it . Such are the lenti- cular frozen cavities which were described by myself on the Glacier of Bossons , and which have been since particularly noticed by Messrs . Tyndall and ...
... glaciers . Certain phenomena cannot be produced without it . Such are the lenti- cular frozen cavities which were described by myself on the Glacier of Bossons , and which have been since particularly noticed by Messrs . Tyndall and ...
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... glaciers do not shew this external evidence of their structure equally , as there are some glaciers which possess the structure itself more developed than others . The cause of the dazzling whiteness of the Glacier des Bossons at ...
... glaciers do not shew this external evidence of their structure equally , as there are some glaciers which possess the structure itself more developed than others . The cause of the dazzling whiteness of the Glacier des Bossons at ...
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... glaciers are some- times traversed , when they are subjected to sudden transitions . in their states of motion ( as in the Glacier des Bossons at Cha- mouni , and which coincide in direction with the veined struc- ture , and pass into ...
... glaciers are some- times traversed , when they are subjected to sudden transitions . in their states of motion ( as in the Glacier des Bossons at Cha- mouni , and which coincide in direction with the veined struc- ture , and pass into ...
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... Glacier of Bossons , and desired Balmat to select two on the Glacier des Bois ( the outlet of the Mer de Glace towards the valley of Chamouni ) ; all these points being tolerably accessible at every season of the year . The general ...
... Glacier of Bossons , and desired Balmat to select two on the Glacier des Bois ( the outlet of the Mer de Glace towards the valley of Chamouni ) ; all these points being tolerably accessible at every season of the year . The general ...
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... Glacier des Bossons , some way above the plateau where the glacier is usually crossed ; on the west side , near the moraine . BOSSONS II . Near the lowest extremity on the Glacier of Bossons , where free from the moraine , on the ...
... Glacier des Bossons , some way above the plateau where the glacier is usually crossed ; on the west side , near the moraine . BOSSONS II . Near the lowest extremity on the Glacier of Bossons , where free from the moraine , on the ...
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