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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... extremity of the glacier to the huge block of stone , under whose friendly shelter we were to encamp ; and in the course of this walk ( a distance of eight or nine miles , on a moderate computation , allowing for the roughness of the ...
... extremity of the glacier to the huge block of stone , under whose friendly shelter we were to encamp ; and in the course of this walk ( a distance of eight or nine miles , on a moderate computation , allowing for the roughness of the ...
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... extremity up to the region of the firn or neve , where , the icy structure ceasing to exist , it could not be looked for ; yet even there , where fre- quent thaws , induced by the neighbourhood of rocks or stones , produced a compacter ...
... extremity up to the region of the firn or neve , where , the icy structure ceasing to exist , it could not be looked for ; yet even there , where fre- quent thaws , induced by the neighbourhood of rocks or stones , produced a compacter ...
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... extremity , the veins have their plane twisted round a vertical axis , having now their dip towards the centre of the glacier , and rising against the walls ; and this inclination sometimes extends nearly to the axis of the glacier , or ...
... extremity , the veins have their plane twisted round a vertical axis , having now their dip towards the centre of the glacier , and rising against the walls ; and this inclination sometimes extends nearly to the axis of the glacier , or ...
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... extremity of the glacier , to a maximum at its lower end . The former experiment had , I have since learned , been suggested by Professor Studer to M. Escher last year , and attempted to be put in practice ( though unsuccessfully ) by ...
... extremity of the glacier , to a maximum at its lower end . The former experiment had , I have since learned , been suggested by Professor Studer to M. Escher last year , and attempted to be put in practice ( though unsuccessfully ) by ...
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... ( see my last Letter ) , that the difference of velocity of the centre and sides is greatest near the lower extremity of the glacier , and that the velocity is more nearly uniform in the higher part ; this corresponds to.
... ( see my last Letter ) , that the difference of velocity of the centre and sides is greatest near the lower extremity of the glacier , and that the velocity is more nearly uniform in the higher part ; this corresponds to.
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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