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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... .. Ablation of the Surface ... Plasticity ; Veined Structure . Addition on the Plasticity of Ice on the Small Scale * From the Philosophical Transactions . Page 68 77 95 119 167 ' XIV . ELEVENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . FESSOR JAMESON.
... .. Ablation of the Surface ... Plasticity ; Veined Structure . Addition on the Plasticity of Ice on the Small Scale * From the Philosophical Transactions . Page 68 77 95 119 167 ' XIV . ELEVENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . FESSOR JAMESON.
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... Surface ... Ablation and Subsidence distinguished and ascertained ... On the Relative Velocity of the Surface and Bottom of a Glacier . XV . TWELFTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1846 ] On the Extraordinary ...
... Surface ... Ablation and Subsidence distinguished and ascertained ... On the Relative Velocity of the Surface and Bottom of a Glacier . XV . TWELFTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1846 ] On the Extraordinary ...
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... the necessity for allowing this vertical dilatation , by including the ascent of the glacial surface summer . * Fourth Letter on Glaciers ( 1842 ) , p . 34 of this volume . among the direct effects of plasticity . * I considered.
... the necessity for allowing this vertical dilatation , by including the ascent of the glacial surface summer . * Fourth Letter on Glaciers ( 1842 ) , p . 34 of this volume . among the direct effects of plasticity . * I considered.
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... surfaces into contact , and that they could not have been filled with pellucid ice by any process short of the prolonged action of external cold upon ... surface and sides of glaciers . the softened ice under pressure still appears to me to.
... surfaces into contact , and that they could not have been filled with pellucid ice by any process short of the prolonged action of external cold upon ... surface and sides of glaciers . the softened ice under pressure still appears to me to.
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... surface something each day which had totally escaped us before . It was fully three hours ' good walking on the ice ... surface , and wherever that surface was intersected and smoothed by superficial water - courses , their structure ...
... surface something each day which had totally escaped us before . It was fully three hours ' good walking on the ice ... surface , and wherever that surface was intersected and smoothed by superficial water - courses , their structure ...
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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