Geschichte der Moränenkunde

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R. Lechner (W. Müller), 1901 - 344 Seiten
 

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Seite 272 - Travels, comprising observations made during a residence in the Tarentaise, and various parts of the Grecian and Pennine Alps, and in Switzerland and Auvergne, in the years 1820, 1821, 1822.
Seite 294 - PORTLOCK. -REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY of LONDONDERRY, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, examined and described under the Authority of the Master-General and Board of Ordnance. By JE PORTLOCK, FRS &c.
Seite 69 - ... la surface d'un glacier. Ces blocs épars sur le glacier marchent donc avec lui , et arrivent enfin à ses bords, sur lesquels, rejetés sans cesse, ils s'accumulent et forment des amas en talus , plus ou moins considérables, auxquels on a donné dans les Alpes le nom de moraines. Ces moraines sont, ou latérales, disposées le long du glacier parallèlement à ses flancs ; ou terminales, bordant son extrémité inférieure, et en dessinant la forme ordinairement semi-circulaire ; ou enfin médianes,...
Seite 283 - NORWAY AND ITS GLACIERS VISITED IN 1851. FOLLOWED BY JOURNALS OF EXCURSIONS IN THE HIGH ALPS OF DAUPHINE^ BERNE, AND SAVOY.
Seite 52 - Ice, or glaciers, by their immense expanding powers, must beyond doubt have produced this change in their original form, from this circumstance, that they were continually sliding downwards from the higher mountains to the lower districts and, by this progressive motion, carried with them the masses of stone which they had torn from the mountains.
Seite 7 - Our curiosity did not stop here, we were resolved to go down upon the Ice ; we had about four hundred Yards to go down, the Descent was excessively steep, and all of a dry crumbling Earth, mixt with Gravel, and little loose Stones, which afforded us no firm footing; so that we went down partly falling, and partly sliding on our Hands and Knees.
Seite 104 - ... fine mud covered the rock, not composed however alone of the clayey limestone mud, but of sharp sand derived from the granitic moraines of the glacier, and brought down with it from the opposite side of the valley. Upon examining the face of the ice removed from contact with the rock, we found it set all over with sharp angular fragments, from the size of grains of sand to that of a cherry, or larger, of the same species of rock, and which were so firmly fixed in the ice as to demonstrate the...
Seite 202 - ... of 50 to 150 or 200 feet required only from two or three decades to a century of years. Indeed, where they exhibit no such banding, I have thought that sometimes their entire formation may have been more rapid, so that the most massive drumlins, like the largest esker ridges, were probably deposited in so short a time that their beginning, growth, and completion would occupy considerably less than a man's lifetime. The drumlins appear to have been heaped up beneath the ice-sheet within a few...
Seite 26 - Souvent même les glaciers sont encaissés dans toute leur longueur par des espèces de parapets ou de retranchements composés de ces mêmes débris que les glaces latérales de ces glaciers ont déposés sur leurs bords. Dans les glaciers qui ont été anciennement plus grands qu'ils ne sont aujourd'hui, ces parapets dominent les glaces actuelles ; dans ceux qui sont au contraire plus grands qu'ils n'aient encore été, ces parapets sont plus bas que la glace ; et on en voit enfin où ils sont...

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