 Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which would assign to them the principal agency in our glacial phenomena. Under a condition of the continent in which only its higher peaks were...  The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist - Page 2281864Full view - About this book
 | 1864 - 968 lehte
...cling to the northern land or be thrown so rapidly to the west that its direct action might not rench such summits. Nor would I exclude altogether the action...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glacers, as now... | |
 | 1864 - 474 lehte
...action might not reach such summits. Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in east. ern America, though I must dissent from any view which...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glacers, as now... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1868 - 754 lehte
...north-west and south-east striation. It is true that this view docs not account for the south-east striw observed on some high peaks in New England ; but it...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers, as now,... | |
 | 1869 - 514 lehte
...combats. For instance in ^peaking of stria: observed in some portions of New England, he says : "Xor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers...them the principal agency in our glacial phenomena." And further on he remarks in a note '• I have no doubt that Logan, Hind and Packard are correct in... | |
 | 1872 - 520 lehte
...northwest and southeast striation. It is true that this view does not account for the southeast striae observed on some high peaks in New England; but it...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now... | |
 | Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - 1872 - 534 lehte
...northwest and southeast striation. It is true that this view does not account for the southeast striae observed on some high peaks in New England ; but it...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1872 - 148 lehte
...northwest and southeast striation. It is true that this view does not account for the southeast strife observed on some high peaks in New England ; but it...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1878 - 868 lehte
...north-west and south-east striation. It is true that this view does not account for the south-east striae observed on some high peaks in New England ; but it...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers, as now,... | |
 | Samuel Almond Miller - 1881 - 354 lehte
...northwest and southeast striation. It is true, that this view does not account for the southeast striae observed on some high peaks in New England; but it...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers, as now,... | |
 | Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - 1872 - 518 lehte
...America, though I must dissent from any view which would assign to them the principal agency in our glacid phenomena, under a condition of the continent in which...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now... | |
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