Author: A. Ramsey

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780484101370

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Excerpt from The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales Ever since the publication of De Saussure's great work on the Alps, the subject of glaciers has claimed a considerable and increasing share of the attention of scientific writers. The gathering of the snow in the higher mountain regions, its conversion into solid ice, the inner structure and movements of glaciers, their ancient extension and erosive action on their rocky beds, the origin of crevasses, moraines, and many other attendant phenomena, have all been the subjects of discussion; and in the writings of De Saussure, Charpentier, Agassiz, and James Forbes, the charms of style and Bgraphic; 1kastration have invested these questions with. An interest felt far beyond the circle of purely. Scientific readers. The subject has, how ev'er, many bearings besides those relating to existing glaciers, and in the following pages I propose chiefly to confine myself to that part 0 of the history and antiquities of the glacier world the origin of which, though lost 1n the far backward and abysm of time, yet, in a. Geological sense, so little preceded our own day, that the larger contours of hill and valley as they yet stand were already in existence, and probably all the forms of mollusca now living even then inhabited the northern seas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales (Classic Reprint) written by A. Ramsey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales Ever since the publication of De Saussure's great work on the Alps, the subject of glaciers has claimed a considerable and increasing share of the attention of scientific writers. The gathering of the snow in the higher mountain regions, its conversion into solid ice, the inner structure and movements of glaciers, their ancient extension and erosive action on their rocky beds, the origin of crevasses, moraines, and many other attendant phenomena, have all been the subjects of discussion; and in the writings of De Saussure, Charpentier, Agassiz, and James Forbes, the charms of style and Bgraphic; 1kastration have invested these questions with. An interest felt far beyond the circle of purely. Scientific readers. The subject has, how ev'er, many bearings besides those relating to existing glaciers, and in the following pages I propose chiefly to confine myself to that part 0 of the history and antiquities of the glacier world the origin of which, though lost 1n the far backward and abysm of time, yet, in a. Geological sense, so little preceded our own day, that the larger contours of hill and valley as they yet stand were already in existence, and probably all the forms of mollusca now living even then inhabited the northern seas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.