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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... solid foundations for a Plastic or Viscous Theory of Glaciers , without the desire or pretension to have credit for exhausting the subject in such a manner that future discoveries in physics can throw no more light upon it . I utterly ...
... solid foundations for a Plastic or Viscous Theory of Glaciers , without the desire or pretension to have credit for exhausting the subject in such a manner that future discoveries in physics can throw no more light upon it . I utterly ...
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... solid foundations of a theory . My wish to see the total eclipse of the sun on the 8th , has brought me to the south side of the Alps sooner than I could have wished ; but I have now fixed so many points on the Mer de Glace , that , on ...
... solid foundations of a theory . My wish to see the total eclipse of the sun on the 8th , has brought me to the south side of the Alps sooner than I could have wished ; but I have now fixed so many points on the Mer de Glace , that , on ...
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... solid ice of one year is the fissured ice of the next , and the very ice which this year forms the walls of a " moulin , " will next year be some hundred feet farther forward and without perforation , whilst the cascade remains ...
... solid ice of one year is the fissured ice of the next , and the very ice which this year forms the walls of a " moulin , " will next year be some hundred feet farther forward and without perforation , whilst the cascade remains ...
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... solid matters , the rocks , stones , gravel , sand , and clay , trace out the form of a sluggish mass propelled downwards by gravity , whilst its surface is seamed by the trickling of innumerable rills of water , charged with the more ...
... solid matters , the rocks , stones , gravel , sand , and clay , trace out the form of a sluggish mass propelled downwards by gravity , whilst its surface is seamed by the trickling of innumerable rills of water , charged with the more ...
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... solid ; an opinion best controverted . by the fact which M. E. de Beaumont has since clearly brought into notice , that under existing circumstances such fusion is perfectly insignificant . † The writer of a popular Italian guide - book ...
... solid ; an opinion best controverted . by the fact which M. E. de Beaumont has since clearly brought into notice , that under existing circumstances such fusion is perfectly insignificant . † The writer of a popular Italian guide - book ...
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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