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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... 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 temperatures considerably below the ...
... 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 temperatures considerably below the ...
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... whilst the intermediate ones , partaking of a whitish - green colour and granular structure , were washed out . We did not sleep that night until we had traced the structure in all directions , even far above the position of our cabin ...
... whilst the intermediate ones , partaking of a whitish - green colour and granular structure , were washed out . We did not sleep that night until we had traced the structure in all directions , even far above the position of our cabin ...
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... Whilst the glacier is confined between precipitous barriers with a feeble inclination , the structure is longitudinal . As the glacier , by its weight , falls over the lower part of its bed , and moulds itself into the form which the ...
... Whilst the glacier is confined between precipitous barriers with a feeble inclination , the structure is longitudinal . As the glacier , by its weight , falls over the lower part of its bed , and moulds itself into the form which the ...
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... whilst I ascended the other branch of the Eringer Thal from Evolena by way of the Ferpecle glacier , and crossed over the mountains to this place , by a pass higher and much longer than the Col du Géant , which presents , certainly ...
... whilst I ascended the other branch of the Eringer Thal from Evolena by way of the Ferpecle glacier , and crossed over the mountains to this place , by a pass higher and much longer than the Col du Géant , which presents , certainly ...
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... whilst the compacter portion is washed clean by the rain , so that these bands are nothing more than visible traces of the direction of the internal icy structure , and of course correspond with what has been already stated as to the ...
... whilst the compacter portion is washed clean by the rain , so that these bands are nothing more than visible traces of the direction of the internal icy structure , and of course correspond with what has been already stated as to the ...
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