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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... Plastic or Viscous Theory of Glaciers considered ... Verticality of Crevasses accounted for . VIII . SEVENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . - ON THE VEINED STRUC- ture of the Ice , Addressed to the Rev. Dr. WHEWELL , Master of Trinity College ...
... Plastic or Viscous Theory of Glaciers considered ... Verticality of Crevasses accounted for . VIII . SEVENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . - ON THE VEINED STRUC- ture of the Ice , Addressed to the Rev. Dr. WHEWELL , Master of Trinity College ...
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... Plastic Theory .... Condensation of the Glacier in its downward course in consequence of Frontal Resistance ... PLASTIC BODIES , AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE PHENOMENA OF LAVA STREAMS [ 1845 ] • 1. Plastic Models . 2. Analogy of Glaciers to ...
... Plastic Theory .... Condensation of the Glacier in its downward course in consequence of Frontal Resistance ... PLASTIC BODIES , AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE PHENOMENA OF LAVA STREAMS [ 1845 ] • 1. Plastic Models . 2. Analogy of Glaciers to ...
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... plastic than ice of low temperature , and that the terms " bruising and re - attachment , " incipient fissures reunited by time and cohesion , " were equiva- lent in 1846 to the phrase " fracture and regelation " applied * The following ...
... plastic than ice of low temperature , and that the terms " bruising and re - attachment , " incipient fissures reunited by time and cohesion , " were equiva- lent in 1846 to the phrase " fracture and regelation " applied * The following ...
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... Plastic or Viscous Theory of Glaciers , without the desire or pretension to have credit for exhausting the subject in such a manner that future discoveries in physics can throw no more light upon it .. I utterly disclaim so unworthy a ...
... Plastic or Viscous Theory of Glaciers , without the desire or pretension to have credit for exhausting the subject in such a manner that future discoveries in physics can throw no more light upon it .. I utterly disclaim so unworthy a ...
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... Plastic Theory and afterwards to defend it . The course thus taken is at least impartial - in some respects it is disadvantageous to me . * These pages exhibit , without reservation , the progress of the writer's opinions from the very ...
... Plastic Theory and afterwards to defend it . The course thus taken is at least impartial - in some respects it is disadvantageous to me . * These pages exhibit , without reservation , the progress of the writer's opinions from the very ...
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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