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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... 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 , Cambridge ...
... 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 , Cambridge ...
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... VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIER MOTION . * - PART II . AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH BY OBSERVATION THE PLASTICITY OF GLACIER ICE [ 1845 ] 3. De Saussure's Theory . 24. Modifications of De Saus- sure's Theory . 5. Experiments at Chamouni on the ...
... VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIER MOTION . * - PART II . AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH BY OBSERVATION THE PLASTICITY OF GLACIER ICE [ 1845 ] 3. De Saussure's Theory . 24. Modifications of De Saus- sure's Theory . 5. Experiments at Chamouni on the ...
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... Viscous Theory of Glaciers . Land - slips as observed by M. Collin ... Mr. Milward on the Phenomena of a large Mud - slide at Malta , and on the Cause of the Dirt - Bands and Wrinkles of Glaciers ... Con- nection with Frontal Dip ...
... Viscous Theory of Glaciers . Land - slips as observed by M. Collin ... Mr. Milward on the Phenomena of a large Mud - slide at Malta , and on the Cause of the Dirt - Bands and Wrinkles of Glaciers ... Con- nection with Frontal Dip ...
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... VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIERS . In a Letter from PROFESSOR GORDON of Glasgow to PRO- FESSOR J. D. FORBES of Edinburgh * No. V. EXTRACTS from a LETTER from E. BLACKWELL , Esq . , containing Observations on the Movement of Gla- ciers of ...
... VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIERS . In a Letter from PROFESSOR GORDON of Glasgow to PRO- FESSOR J. D. FORBES of Edinburgh * No. V. EXTRACTS from a LETTER from E. BLACKWELL , Esq . , containing Observations on the Movement of Gla- ciers of ...
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... 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 pretension ...
... 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 pretension ...
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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