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Page 49
... glaciers in Europe has gradually come to be accepted by geologists , so will the existence of like phenomena , both in North and South America , during the same epoch , be recognized sooner or later as part of a great series of physical ...
... glaciers in Europe has gradually come to be accepted by geologists , so will the existence of like phenomena , both in North and South America , during the same epoch , be recognized sooner or later as part of a great series of physical ...
Page 51
... glaciers , or ex- tensive sheets of ice , resting directly upon the face of the country and ad- vancing over it . There seems thus far to be an inex- tricable confusion , in the ideas of many geologists , as to the respective action of ...
... glaciers , or ex- tensive sheets of ice , resting directly upon the face of the country and ad- vancing over it . There seems thus far to be an inex- tricable confusion , in the ideas of many geologists , as to the respective action of ...
Page 162
... glaciers of Great Britain ploughed in- to the sea , and when those of the Swiss mountains had ten times their present altitude ; when every lake in Northern Italy was filled with ice , and these fro- zen masses extended even into North ...
... glaciers of Great Britain ploughed in- to the sea , and when those of the Swiss mountains had ten times their present altitude ; when every lake in Northern Italy was filled with ice , and these fro- zen masses extended even into North ...
Page 163
... glaciers have trav- elled . I answer , not a trace of them ; for the simple reason that there is not a natural rock surface to be found through- out the whole Amazonian Valley . rocks themselves are of so friable a na- ture , and the ...
... glaciers have trav- elled . I answer , not a trace of them ; for the simple reason that there is not a natural rock surface to be found through- out the whole Amazonian Valley . rocks themselves are of so friable a na- ture , and the ...
Page 164
... glacier from its founda- tion , raising it from immediate contact with the valley bottom , and thus giving room for the ... glaciers , it is also well known that the fresh- water lakes formed by the melting of the ice are singularly ...
... glacier from its founda- tion , raising it from immediate contact with the valley bottom , and thus giving room for the ... glaciers , it is also well known that the fresh- water lakes formed by the melting of the ice are singularly ...
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