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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... March 1843 . [ These papers contain the substance of some of the chapters of the Travels in the Alps , then in preparation . The third con- tains the first description of the plastic models , with illustrative Tour of Mont Blanc and of ...
... March 1843 . [ These papers contain the substance of some of the chapters of the Travels in the Alps , then in preparation . The third con- tains the first description of the plastic models , with illustrative Tour of Mont Blanc and of ...
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... March 1859. ] The first edition of Travels in the Alps of Savoy , & c . , was published in July 1843 ; the second edition in June 1845 . The work entitled Norway and its Glaciers , etc. , was pub- lished towards the end of 1853 . PAPERS ...
... March 1859. ] The first edition of Travels in the Alps of Savoy , & c . , was published in July 1843 ; the second edition in June 1845 . The work entitled Norway and its Glaciers , etc. , was pub- lished towards the end of 1853 . PAPERS ...
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... march at different times of the year . — I am , my dear Sir , yours very truly . 6 . * [ Originally printed annular rings , by a typographical error . See Editor's Note , Edin . New Phil . Journal , April 1843 , p . 382. ] V. FOURTH ...
... march at different times of the year . — I am , my dear Sir , yours very truly . 6 . * [ Originally printed annular rings , by a typographical error . See Editor's Note , Edin . New Phil . Journal , April 1843 , p . 382. ] V. FOURTH ...
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... march was slower than in either of the other parts . ( 2. ) Whilst I admit that the glacier is , during summer , infiltrated with water in all or most of its thickness ( a point on which I had last year great doubts ) , I feel quite ...
... march was slower than in either of the other parts . ( 2. ) Whilst I admit that the glacier is , during summer , infiltrated with water in all or most of its thickness ( a point on which I had last year great doubts ) , I feel quite ...
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... march nearly as in the height of summer . ( 4. ) It has been inferred from the dilatation theory , that whilst the surface of the glacier continually wastes , it [ is ] at the same time heaved bodily upwards from beneath , so that its ...
... march nearly as in the height of summer . ( 4. ) It has been inferred from the dilatation theory , that whilst the surface of the glacier continually wastes , it [ is ] at the same time heaved bodily upwards from beneath , so that its ...
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ablation Alps analogy angle annual motion appears Arveiron August Balmat bands Bishop of Annecy Brenva cause centre Col du Géant compact congelation continuity convex Courmayeur crevasses curve curved bands daily motion declivity direction dirt-bands effect Etna evidence experiment fact feet fissures fluid friction frontal dip Glace of Chamouni Glacier des Bois glacier motion glacier moves glacier of Bossons Grindelwald horizontal hydrostatic pressure inches inclination internal July lava stream less Letter on Glaciers longitudinal lower marked mass measurement Mer de Glace millimetres Mont Blanc Montanvert moraine motion of glaciers mud-slide nearly névé observations origin parallel particles plane plastic Plate portion pressure produce remarkable retardation rock Saussure Saussure's season side sliding slope snow solid station summer surface Talefre temperature thawing theodolite theory of glaciers tion transverse Travels valley veined structure velocity vertical Vesuvius viscous theory volume whilst winter wrinkles