The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & GlaciersH.S. King & Company, 1873 - 192 стор. |
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... Géant has suffered much from the general waste . Its crevasses are still wild , but the ice - cliffs and séracs of former days are but poorly represented to - day . The great Aletsch and its neighbours exhibit similar evidences of ...
... Géant has suffered much from the general waste . Its crevasses are still wild , but the ice - cliffs and séracs of former days are but poorly represented to - day . The great Aletsch and its neighbours exhibit similar evidences of ...
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... Géant 15. Questioning the Glaciers 16. Branches and Medial Moraines of the Mer de Glace from the Cleft Station • 17. The Talèfre and the Jardin . Work among the Crevasses 18. First Questions regarding Glacier Motion . Drifting of Bodies ...
... Géant 15. Questioning the Glaciers 16. Branches and Medial Moraines of the Mer de Glace from the Cleft Station • 17. The Talèfre and the Jardin . Work among the Crevasses 18. First Questions regarding Glacier Motion . Drifting of Bodies ...
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... Géant . It stretches smoothly up for a long distance , then becomes disturbed , and then changes to a great frozen cascade , down which the ice appears to tumble in wild confusion . Above the cascade you see an expanse of shining snow ...
... Géant . It stretches smoothly up for a long distance , then becomes disturbed , and then changes to a great frozen cascade , down which the ice appears to tumble in wild confusion . Above the cascade you see an expanse of shining snow ...
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... Géant . We should have found ice under our feet up to the bottom of the cascade . It is not so compact as the ice lower down , but you would not think of refusing to call it ice . 120. As we approach the fall , the smooth and un- broken ...
... Géant . We should have found ice under our feet up to the bottom of the cascade . It is not so compact as the ice lower down , but you would not think of refusing to call it ice . 120. As we approach the fall , the smooth and un- broken ...
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... Géant . 123. They were no idle scamperers on the mountains that made these wild recesses first known ; it was not the desire for health which now brings some , or the desire for grandeur and beauty which brings others , or the wish to ...
... Géant . 123. They were no idle scamperers on the mountains that made these wild recesses first known ; it was not the desire for health which now brings some , or the desire for grandeur and beauty which brings others , or the wish to ...
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