Californien: Land und Leute

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E. H. Mayer, 1871 - 380 pages
 

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Page 51 - Comparative, hypsometrical and physical Tableau of High Asia, the Andes and the Alps.
Page 69 - The fact of the largest bodies of snow being met with in depressions, which, when filled up to a certain point, remained nearly stationary, and did not accumulate hy drifting more than the average heat of summer could dissolve — the entire absence of anything like glacier phenomena — soon satisfied my mind that the true „snow-line" as understood in European countries was not reached, at least in this particular region.

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