Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and GravelD. Appleton, 1883 - 452 pages |
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... thickness . Think of that ! Rock piled over rock , from the primeval granite upward , to a height four times greater than our highest mountains , and every rock stratified like the leaves of a book ; and every leaf containing the ...
... thickness . Think of that ! Rock piled over rock , from the primeval granite upward , to a height four times greater than our highest mountains , and every rock stratified like the leaves of a book ; and every leaf containing the ...
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... thick , it would go but a little way to form the immense deposits which stretch from the Arctic Sea to Patagonia . The stones of the " till " are strangely marked , striated , and scratched , with lines parallel to the longest diameter ...
... thick , it would go but a little way to form the immense deposits which stretch from the Arctic Sea to Patagonia . The stones of the " till " are strangely marked , striated , and scratched , with lines parallel to the longest diameter ...
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... thicker in one place than another . But in the Drift this is not the case . The deposit is thicker in the valleys and thinner on the hills , sometimes absent altogether on the higher elevations . " The true bowlder - clay is spread out ...
... thicker in one place than another . But in the Drift this is not the case . The deposit is thicker in the valleys and thinner on the hills , sometimes absent altogether on the higher elevations . " The true bowlder - clay is spread out ...
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... thickness of such a deposit to accumulate . " * But it is questionable whether the glaciers do press with a steady force upon the rocks beneath so as to score them . As a rule , the base of the glacier is full of wa- ter ; rivers flow ...
... thickness of such a deposit to accumulate . " * But it is questionable whether the glaciers do press with a steady force upon the rocks beneath so as to score them . As a rule , the base of the glacier is full of wa- ter ; rivers flow ...
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... thickness . The glaciers could not form such sheets ; they deposit their material in long ridges called " terminal moraines . " Agassiz , the great advocate of the ice - origin of the Drift , says : " All these moraines are the land ...
... thickness . The glaciers could not form such sheets ; they deposit their material in long ridges called " terminal moraines . " Agassiz , the great advocate of the ice - origin of the Drift , says : " All these moraines are the land ...
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