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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... Snow Beds . XI . ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIER MOTION . * - PART I. CONTAINING EXPERIMENTS ON THE FLOW OF PLASTIC BODIES , AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE PHENOMENA OF LAVA STREAMS [ 1845 ] 21. Plastic Models . 2. Analogy of ...
... Snow Beds . XI . ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE VISCOUS THEORY OF GLACIER MOTION . * - PART I. CONTAINING EXPERIMENTS ON THE FLOW OF PLASTIC BODIES , AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE PHENOMENA OF LAVA STREAMS [ 1845 ] 21. Plastic Models . 2. Analogy of ...
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... snow - ball , which will not occur if the snow is dry and hard frozen . These facts appear to have excited little notice , until atten- tion was called to them by Dr. Tyndall in a lecture , also delivered at the Royal Institution , on ...
... snow - ball , which will not occur if the snow is dry and hard frozen . These facts appear to have excited little notice , until atten- tion was called to them by Dr. Tyndall in a lecture , also delivered at the Royal Institution , on ...
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... snow or upon ice softened by imminent thaw into a condition more plastic than ice of low temperature , and that the terms " bruising and re - attachment , " " incipient fissures reunited by time and cohesion , " were equiva- lent in ...
... snow or upon ice softened by imminent thaw into a condition more plastic than ice of low temperature , and that the terms " bruising and re - attachment , " " incipient fissures reunited by time and cohesion , " were equiva- lent in ...
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... snow into glassy ice , remained for nearly three years a strongly fixed idea in my mind , but it only received a satisfactory development when I returned to Chamouni in 1846 , thoroughly unsatisfied with the explanation of the ...
... snow into glassy ice , remained for nearly three years a strongly fixed idea in my mind , but it only received a satisfactory development when I returned to Chamouni in 1846 , thoroughly unsatisfied with the explanation of the ...
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... snow into laminated cohering ice , which constitutes the character of the true glacial substance , even at great depths , were accounted for without the embar- rassing admission of the penetration of the winter frosts to an unlimited ...
... snow into laminated cohering ice , which constitutes the character of the true glacial substance , even at great depths , were accounted for without the embar- rassing admission of the penetration of the winter frosts to an unlimited ...
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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