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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... Summer of 1846 at Stations C , D , P , and R ... Velocity of the Glacier of Talèfre , near its point of Discharge ... Discovery of a Knap- sack ten years buried in the Ice , and deduction of the motion ... The Glacier of Nant Blanc ...
... Summer of 1846 at Stations C , D , P , and R ... Velocity of the Glacier of Talèfre , near its point of Discharge ... Discovery of a Knap- sack ten years buried in the Ice , and deduction of the motion ... The Glacier of Nant Blanc ...
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... summer when the motion of the glacier is most rapid , I would gladly have dis- pensed with it altogether . Still it was impossible to deny that the winter's cold must penetrate to some depth in the glacier , and at first I was willing ...
... summer when the motion of the glacier is most rapid , I would gladly have dis- pensed with it altogether . Still it was impossible to deny that the winter's cold must penetrate to some depth in the glacier , and at first I was willing ...
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... summer , my direct observations and experiments , and in the meantime I desire to prepare myself for the task , by a thought- ful review of the experience I have already had , and a close analysis of what has been already argued and ...
... summer , my direct observations and experiments , and in the meantime I desire to prepare myself for the task , by a thought- ful review of the experience I have already had , and a close analysis of what has been already argued and ...
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... summer , by the many persons who are probably at this moment . directing their attention to them , this , I am sure , will be ad- mitted , that the veined structure is not peculiar to some glaciers , as some would maintain , nor to some ...
... summer , by the many persons who are probably at this moment . directing their attention to them , this , I am sure , will be ad- mitted , that the veined structure is not peculiar to some glaciers , as some would maintain , nor to some ...
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... SUMMER . 27 above three months during which I have studied it , are so great and remarkable , and in some respects so unexpected , as to be of capital importance in any theory which may be proposed . I was very greatly struck with the ...
... SUMMER . 27 above three months during which I have studied it , are so great and remarkable , and in some respects so unexpected , as to be of capital importance in any theory which may be proposed . I was very greatly struck with the ...
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