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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... observations of at least the previous year ) , clearly shows : -After explaining the * Travels , 1st Edit . , p . 384 ; 2d Edit . , p . 386 . † See the limitations mentioned in Travels , pp . 232 , 360 , 372 of both editions . I ...
... observations of at least the previous year ) , clearly shows : -After explaining the * Travels , 1st Edit . , p . 384 ; 2d Edit . , p . 386 . † See the limitations mentioned in Travels , pp . 232 , 360 , 372 of both editions . I ...
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... OBSERVATIONS . xxiii writings reprinted in this volume . It will also , I think , be admitted on examination , that the new doctrine preserved all that was sound and important in the old one , and added a new feature not only to the ...
... OBSERVATIONS . xxiii writings reprinted in this volume . It will also , I think , be admitted on examination , that the new doctrine preserved all that was sound and important in the old one , and added a new feature not only to the ...
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... observation shows , however , the extreme limit of the law of graduated softening , and is , as I have recently ... observations , I leave to the judgment of the reader the historical records of my own successive endea- * See the ...
... observation shows , however , the extreme limit of the law of graduated softening , and is , as I have recently ... observations , I leave to the judgment of the reader the historical records of my own successive endea- * See the ...
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... observations . The Fifth to the Ninth Letters inclusive contain the results of these journeys , with the reflections which farther consideration of the Theory had suggested to my own mind , or which the objections made to it had called ...
... observations . The Fifth to the Ninth Letters inclusive contain the results of these journeys , with the reflections which farther consideration of the Theory had suggested to my own mind , or which the objections made to it had called ...
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... observations referred to in a previous part of this preface , which altered some- what my opinions on the consolidation of the glacier , and afforded several other new observations , particularly as to the more rapid surface motion of ...
... observations referred to in a previous part of this preface , which altered some- what my opinions on the consolidation of the glacier , and afforded several other new observations , particularly as to the more rapid surface motion of ...
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Alps analogy angle annual motion appears Arveiron August Balmat bands Bishop of Annecy breadth cause centre continuity convex Courmayeur crevasses curve curved bands daily motion direction dirt-bands Edinburgh Elie de Beaumont Etna evidence experiment fact feet fissures fluid fluidity friction frontal dip Glace of Chamouni Glacier des Bois glacier motion glacier moves glacier of Bossons Grindelwald hydrostatic hydrostatic pressure inches inclination July lava stream less Letter on Glaciers longitudinal lower marked mass Mean daily motion measurement Mer de Glace millimetres Mont Blanc Montanvert moraine motion of glaciers movement nearly névé observations origin parallel particles Philosophical Journal plastic Plate portion pressure produce resistance retardation rock Saussure Saussure's theory season sides sliding slope snow solid station summer surface temperature thawing theodolite theory of glaciers tion transverse Travels Trelaporte valley veined structure velocity vertical Vesuvius viscous theory volume weather whilst winter