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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... produce the Veined Structure ... An attempt to explain the appa- rent rejection of Stones from the Glacier ... Ridges of Ice in certain parts of Glaciers due to the bruising effect of intense Pressure ... Three Orders of discontinuity ...
... produce the Veined Structure ... An attempt to explain the appa- rent rejection of Stones from the Glacier ... Ridges of Ice in certain parts of Glaciers due to the bruising effect of intense Pressure ... Three Orders of discontinuity ...
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... produced in a few moments of time . Whilst in the glacier , an almost inappreciable distortion ( for small areas or hand specimens ) is produced in periods of many days or weeks . Very probably also , MM . Schlagintweit operated at ...
... produced in a few moments of time . Whilst in the glacier , an almost inappreciable distortion ( for small areas or hand specimens ) is produced in periods of many days or weeks . Very probably also , MM . Schlagintweit operated at ...
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... producing the veined structure ; ( 3 ) the transformation of the névé into per- fect ice . On the first point I had early come to the conclusion that the greater fissures of ice were sealed up merely by the collapse and reunion of the ...
... producing the veined structure ; ( 3 ) the transformation of the névé into per- fect ice . On the first point I had early come to the conclusion that the greater fissures of ice were sealed up merely by the collapse and reunion of the ...
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... produces the blue veins of the ribboned structure , with the conversion of granular snow into glassy ice , remained for nearly three years a strongly fixed idea in my mind , but it only received a satisfactory development when I ...
... produces the blue veins of the ribboned structure , with the conversion of granular snow into glassy ice , remained for nearly three years a strongly fixed idea in my mind , but it only received a satisfactory development when I ...
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... 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 Huxley , and by Mr. Ball . I have referred ...
... 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 Huxley , and by Mr. Ball . I have referred ...
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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