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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... Rocks ... Physical Cause of both perhaps similar . vasses ... II . FIRST LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PROFESSOR JAMESON [ 1842 ] Account of the First Experiments , undertaken in June 1842 , to determine the Laws of Motion of the ...
... Rocks ... Physical Cause of both perhaps similar . vasses ... II . FIRST LETTER ON GLACIERS . Addressed to PROFESSOR JAMESON [ 1842 ] Account of the First Experiments , undertaken in June 1842 , to determine the Laws of Motion of the ...
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... Rocks with that of Glaciers . By C. DARWIN , Esq . , F.R.S. * 266 No. IV . ACCOUNT OF AN EXPERIMENT ON STOCKHOLM PITCH , CONFIRMING THE VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIERS . In a Letter from PROFESSOR GORDON of Glasgow to PRO- FESSOR J. D. ...
... Rocks with that of Glaciers . By C. DARWIN , Esq . , F.R.S. * 266 No. IV . ACCOUNT OF AN EXPERIMENT ON STOCKHOLM PITCH , CONFIRMING THE VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIERS . In a Letter from PROFESSOR GORDON of Glasgow to PRO- FESSOR J. D. ...
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... Rocks - Physical Cause of both perhaps similar . † THE object of the present short communication is little more than to announce and describe a peculiarity which the Ice of Glaciers frequently exhibits , interesting in itself as ...
... Rocks - Physical Cause of both perhaps similar . † THE object of the present short communication is little more than to announce and describe a peculiarity which the Ice of Glaciers frequently exhibits , interesting in itself as ...
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... rocks or stones , produced a compacter structure , the veins became apparent . In some parts of the glacier , it appears more developed than in others ; in the neighbourhood of the moraines , and the walls of the glacier , it was most ...
... rocks or stones , produced a compacter structure , the veins became apparent . In some parts of the glacier , it appears more developed than in others ; in the neighbourhood of the moraines , and the walls of the glacier , it was most ...
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... rocks presents itself as not improbably connected with a similar unknown cause , whose action pervaded the mass of the crystallizing rock undergoing metamorphic change , as this pervades the mass of the crystallizing glacier . In the ...
... rocks presents itself as not improbably connected with a similar unknown cause , whose action pervaded the mass of the crystallizing rock undergoing metamorphic change , as this pervades the mass of the crystallizing glacier . In 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