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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... Origin , with measurements of the motion of the Ice ... Analogy from the motion of the Rhone . XVI . THIRTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- 176 FESSOR JAMESON [ 1846 ] Acceleration of the Surface Motion of Glaciers confirmed ...
... Origin , with measurements of the motion of the Ice ... Analogy from the motion of the Rhone . XVI . THIRTEENTH LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PRO- 176 FESSOR JAMESON [ 1846 ] Acceleration of the Surface Motion of Glaciers confirmed ...
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... ORIGIN OF BANDS " IN GLACIERS . By A. MILWARD , Esq . No. II . MR . FARADAY ON THE PROPERTIES OF ICE " DIRT- * From the Encyclopædia Britannica , eighth edition . · 228 233 261 265 Page No. III . EXTRACTS from LETTERS to PROFESSOR FORBES.
... ORIGIN OF BANDS " IN GLACIERS . By A. MILWARD , Esq . No. II . MR . FARADAY ON THE PROPERTIES OF ICE " DIRT- * From the Encyclopædia Britannica , eighth edition . · 228 233 261 265 Page No. III . EXTRACTS from LETTERS to PROFESSOR FORBES.
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... origin . Its importance , however , as an indication of an unknown cause , is very great ; not only because all that can illustrate what is so obscure as the manner of glacier formation and movement , is so , but because it is precisely ...
... origin . Its importance , however , as an indication of an unknown cause , is very great ; not only because all that can illustrate what is so obscure as the manner of glacier formation and movement , is so , but because it is precisely ...
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... origin ) , the difference of the motions determines the dilatation or contraction of the intermediate part of the ice , and is liable to none of the great errors arising from the measurement of long distances . The observation , in the ...
... origin ) , the difference of the motions determines the dilatation or contraction of the intermediate part of the ice , and is liable to none of the great errors arising from the measurement of long distances . The observation , in the ...
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... origin of the glacier it appears to be one - fourth or one - fifth of the smaller velocity . ( 5. ) The variations of glacier motion affect the central parts most sensibly . ( 6. ) The greatest daily motion which I have observed ...
... origin of the glacier it appears to be one - fourth or one - fifth of the smaller velocity . ( 5. ) The variations of glacier motion affect the central parts most sensibly . ( 6. ) The greatest daily motion which I have observed ...
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