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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... Bands " described ... Mechanical Theory of the Struc- ture ... Dirt - Bands correspond to Annual Intervals ... Glaciers probably move in Winter . Page xiii 1 9 13 17 V. FOURTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PROFESSOR JAMESON.
... Bands " described ... Mechanical Theory of the Struc- ture ... Dirt - Bands correspond to Annual Intervals ... Glaciers probably move in Winter . Page xiii 1 9 13 17 V. FOURTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PROFESSOR JAMESON.
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... Bands ... An Ancient Moraine at Chamouni . VII . SIXTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to the Right Honourable EARL CATHCART [ 1844 ] Analogies of Glaciers to Lava Streams .... Observations on Mount Vesuvius ... Moraines of Lava Streams ...
... Bands ... An Ancient Moraine at Chamouni . VII . SIXTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to the Right Honourable EARL CATHCART [ 1844 ] Analogies of Glaciers to Lava Streams .... Observations on Mount Vesuvius ... Moraines of Lava Streams ...
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... Bands and Wrinkles of Glaciers ... Con- nection with Frontal Dip ... Surfaces of Detrusion in Iron Turnings , attended with Vertical Accumulation of Material . XIX . SIXTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1850 ] ...
... Bands and Wrinkles of Glaciers ... Con- nection with Frontal Dip ... Surfaces of Detrusion in Iron Turnings , attended with Vertical Accumulation of Material . XIX . SIXTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- FESSOR JAMESON [ 1850 ] ...
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... bands of the veined structure , but that it might by its expansion restore the level of the glacier , during winter , to the point from which it had fallen by the waste of the previous This was the idea I had in 1842. * But by the time ...
... bands of the veined structure , but that it might by its expansion restore the level of the glacier , during winter , to the point from which it had fallen by the waste of the previous This was the idea I had in 1842. * But by the time ...
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... bands , which are formed where the pressure is most intense , and where the differential motion is a maximum , that is , near the walls of the glacier . * Thus the whole phenomena of the transformation of the glacier from fresh fallen ...
... bands , which are formed where the pressure is most intense , and where the differential motion is a maximum , that is , near the walls of the glacier . * Thus the whole phenomena of the transformation of the glacier from fresh fallen ...
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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