The North British Review, Volumen31W.P. Kennedy, 1859 |
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... sur les Glaciers leur mechanisme , leur ancienne extension , et le role qu'ils ont joué dans l'Histoire de la Terre . Par MM . L. AGASSIZ , GUYOT , et E. Desor . 18. Remarks on Mr Moseley's Theory . By PROFESSOR Forbes.
... sur les Glaciers leur mechanisme , leur ancienne extension , et le role qu'ils ont joué dans l'Histoire de la Terre . Par MM . L. AGASSIZ , GUYOT , et E. Desor . 18. Remarks on Mr Moseley's Theory . By PROFESSOR Forbes.
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... PROFESSOR WILLIAM THOMSON , F.R.S. Id . , Feb. 1858 . 21. On the Stratification of Vesicular Ice by Pressure . By ... FORBES . Id . , March 1859 , p . 197 . 25. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers , now first Col- lected and ...
... PROFESSOR WILLIAM THOMSON , F.R.S. Id . , Feb. 1858 . 21. On the Stratification of Vesicular Ice by Pressure . By ... FORBES . Id . , March 1859 , p . 197 . 25. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers , now first Col- lected and ...
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... Professor Forbes , the best known and most important glacier bearing groups of mountains between Mount Pelvoux and Monte Viso , in lat . 45 ° , and the Gross Glockner in Carinthia , are those of Mont Blanc , Monte Rosa , the Bernese ...
... Professor Forbes , the best known and most important glacier bearing groups of mountains between Mount Pelvoux and Monte Viso , in lat . 45 ° , and the Gross Glockner in Carinthia , are those of Mont Blanc , Monte Rosa , the Bernese ...
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... Professor Forbes remarks , " is seen to have withdrawn itself very far within its old limits , leaving a prodigious barren waste of stones in advance of it , which , being devoid of soil , nourishes not one blade of grass . At other ...
... Professor Forbes remarks , " is seen to have withdrawn itself very far within its old limits , leaving a prodigious barren waste of stones in advance of it , which , being devoid of soil , nourishes not one blade of grass . At other ...
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... Professor Forbes , " radiating crevasses combined with concentric ones , producing a tartan - like appearance . " When the crevasses are rare , the surface of the glacier pre- sents numerous ruisseaux , or streamlets of limpid water of ...
... Professor Forbes , " radiating crevasses combined with concentric ones , producing a tartan - like appearance . " When the crevasses are rare , the surface of the glacier pre- sents numerous ruisseaux , or streamlets of limpid water of ...
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