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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... hydrostatic pressure ; and the cohesion of ( pp . 90 , 162 ) pointed out a similar accident in lavas . The width of the longitudinal fissures in question shows that no lateral pressure was exerted sufficient to bring their bounding ...
... hydrostatic pressure ; and the cohesion of ( pp . 90 , 162 ) pointed out a similar accident in lavas . The width of the longitudinal fissures in question shows that no lateral pressure was exerted sufficient to bring their bounding ...
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... hydrostatic pressure ; and here and there finding a freer exit far removed from its source , tosses high those mighty fragments of the stony arch which confined it into the wild shapes which strike the eye in crossing the wastes of a ...
... hydrostatic pressure ; and here and there finding a freer exit far removed from its source , tosses high those mighty fragments of the stony arch which confined it into the wild shapes which strike the eye in crossing the wastes of a ...
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... hydrostatic pressure of the unfrozen water contained in the countless capillaries of the glacier , produces the crushing action which shoves the ice over its neighbour particles and leaves a bruise , within which the infiltrated water ...
... hydrostatic pressure of the unfrozen water contained in the countless capillaries of the glacier , produces the crushing action which shoves the ice over its neighbour particles and leaves a bruise , within which the infiltrated water ...
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... hydrostatic pressure of the centre . The former is chiefly , perhaps , the case when streams of tolerably fluid lava flow down a steep inclination , as on the exterior of the cone of Vesuvius ; the latter , when the inclination is small ...
... hydrostatic pressure of the centre . The former is chiefly , perhaps , the case when streams of tolerably fluid lava flow down a steep inclination , as on the exterior of the cone of Vesuvius ; the latter , when the inclination is small ...
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... hydrostatic pressure to move onwards in the direction in which gravity urges it , the vast , porous , crackling mass of seemingly rigid ice , in which it is , as it were , bound up . But farther than this , the experiments first ...
... hydrostatic pressure to move onwards in the direction in which gravity urges it , the vast , porous , crackling mass of seemingly rigid ice , in which it is , as it were , bound up . But farther than this , the experiments first ...
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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