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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... thawing temperature , the film of water is frozen , and the plates of ice cohere ; and also that damp snow becomes , by the same process , compacted into a snow - ball , which will not occur if the snow is dry and hard frozen . These ...
... thawing temperature , the film of water is frozen , and the plates of ice cohere ; and also that damp snow becomes , by the same process , compacted into a snow - ball , which will not occur if the snow is dry and hard frozen . These ...
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... thawing- point of the latter , to which in my writings I had repeatedly * Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , 7th May 1857 , 23d February and 22d April 1858 . referred . BEHAVIOUR OF ICE UNDER BRAMAH'S PRESS . XV xiv RECENT ...
... thawing- point of the latter , to which in my writings I had repeatedly * Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , 7th May 1857 , 23d February and 22d April 1858 . referred . BEHAVIOUR OF ICE UNDER BRAMAH'S PRESS . XV xiv RECENT ...
Página xvii
... thawing ' ] molecular attachment amongst the granules must be com- paratively easy , and the opacity disappears in proportion as optical contact is attained , " p . 201. ' Multitudinous incipient fissures occasioned by the intense ...
... thawing ' ] molecular attachment amongst the granules must be com- paratively easy , and the opacity disappears in proportion as optical contact is attained , " p . 201. ' Multitudinous incipient fissures occasioned by the intense ...
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... thawing state , in opposition to the belief which I formerly , in common with most other persons , entertained , that snow could not pass into pellucid ice without * Fifth Letter , p . 53 of this volume . + Ces mêmes neiges ...
... thawing state , in opposition to the belief which I formerly , in common with most other persons , entertained , that snow could not pass into pellucid ice without * Fifth Letter , p . 53 of this volume . + Ces mêmes neiges ...
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... thawing by the ice - cold water which infiltrates it . In this condition , molecular attachment I stated to be comparatively easy , the opacity disappearing as optical contact is attained . The " glacification " of the névé takes place ...
... thawing by the ice - cold water which infiltrates it . In this condition , molecular attachment I stated to be comparatively easy , the opacity disappearing as optical contact is attained . The " glacification " of the névé takes place ...
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