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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... 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 [ 1844 ] Mechanical ...
... 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 [ 1844 ] Mechanical ...
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... Variation of the Motion at different Seasons ... Obser- vations on the Glacier of the Aar , considered and com- pared with the Author's results . 187 205 CONTENTS . xi Page XVIII . FIFTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS X CONTENTS .
... Variation of the Motion at different Seasons ... Obser- vations on the Glacier of the Aar , considered and com- pared with the Author's results . 187 205 CONTENTS . xi Page XVIII . FIFTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS X CONTENTS .
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... got rid of the necessity for allowing this vertical dilatation , by including the ascent of the glacial surface summer . Fourth Letter on Glaciers ( 1842 ) , p . 34 of this volume . among the direct effects of plasticity . I considered ...
... got rid of the necessity for allowing this vertical dilatation , by including the ascent of the glacial surface summer . Fourth Letter on Glaciers ( 1842 ) , p . 34 of this volume . among the direct effects of plasticity . I considered ...
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... considered that my theory was strengthened by being rendered so far independent of an effect which I admitted with reluctance . † There remained , however , three classes of facts requiring explanation , and which were evidently ...
... considered that my theory was strengthened by being rendered so far independent of an effect which I admitted with reluctance . † There remained , however , three classes of facts requiring explanation , and which were evidently ...
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... the globe . When I considered , however , the great * Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for January 1842 . [ The contents have been added in this reprint . ] B extent which such a communication , to be generally intelligible.
... the globe . When I considered , however , the great * Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for January 1842 . [ The contents have been added in this reprint . ] B extent which such a communication , to be generally intelligible.
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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