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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... ; 2d Edit . , p . 386 . See the limitations mentioned in Travels , pp . 232 , 360 , 372 of both editions . CONSOLIDATION BY FRICTION AND PRESSURE . XX effects of differential XX RECENT PROGRESS OF THE GLACIER THEORY .
... ; 2d Edit . , p . 386 . See the limitations mentioned in Travels , pp . 232 , 360 , 372 of both editions . CONSOLIDATION BY FRICTION AND PRESSURE . XX effects of differential XX RECENT PROGRESS OF THE GLACIER THEORY .
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... FRICTION AND PRESSURE . XX effects of differential motion in developing the veined structure , it is added , " I believe that it is during the progress of the glacier thus subjected to a new and peculiar set of forces depending on ...
... FRICTION AND PRESSURE . XX effects of differential motion in developing the veined structure , it is added , " I believe that it is during the progress of the glacier thus subjected to a new and peculiar set of forces depending on ...
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... Friction and pressure alone especially in the glacier , I affirmed to effect the change , which , during a great part of the year , is kept on the very border of thawing by the ice - cold water which infiltrates it . In this condition ...
... Friction and pressure alone especially in the glacier , I affirmed to effect the change , which , during a great part of the year , is kept on the very border of thawing by the ice - cold water which infiltrates it . In this condition ...
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... friction towards the sides and bottom . It will be found that the analogies are entirely favourable ; the glacier struggles between a condition of fluidity and rigidity . It cannot obey the law of semifluid progression ( maximum ...
... friction towards the sides and bottom . It will be found that the analogies are entirely favourable ; the glacier struggles between a condition of fluidity and rigidity . It cannot obey the law of semifluid progression ( maximum ...
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... friction of the base determines an apparent stratifica- tion , parallel to the slope down which they fall . 6. It also follows immediately ( assuming it as a fact very probable but still to be proved , that the deepest part of the ...
... friction of the base determines an apparent stratifica- tion , parallel to the slope down which they fall . 6. It also follows immediately ( assuming it as a fact very probable but still to be proved , that the deepest part of the ...
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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