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 American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 2401864Full view - About this book
| 1864 - 504 pages
...action might not reach such summits. Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now in the extreme Arctic regions. Yet I think that most of the alleged instances must... | |
| 1864 - 526 pages
...action might not reach such summits. Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...permanent ice may have clung about mountains in the teiuperate latitudes. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now... | |
| Sir John William Dawson - 1868 - 754 pages
...action might not reach such summits. Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers, as now, in the extreme Arctic regions. Yet I think that most of the alleged instances must... | |
| sir John William Dawson - 1868 - 870 pages
...action might not reach such summits. Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...ice may have clung about mountains in the temperate latitude.-;. The striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers, as now, in the... | |
| 1869 - 514 pages
...portions of New England, he says : "Xor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in Eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...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 pages
...action might not reach such summits." " Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now in the extreme Arctic regions. Yet I think that most of the alleged instances must... | |
| Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - 1872 - 534 pages
...action might not reach such summits." " Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now in the extreme Arctic regions. Yet I think that most of the alleged instan'ces must... | |
| Sir John William Dawson - 1872 - 148 pages
...action might not reach such summits." " Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers as now in the extreme Arctic regions. Yet I think that most of the alleged instances must... | |
| Sir John William Dawson - 1878 - 868 pages
...action might not reach such summits. Nor would I exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers, as now, in the extreme Arctic regions. Yet I think that most of the alleged instances must... | |
| Samuel Almond Miller - 1881 - 354 pages
...action might not reach such summits. Nor would I -exclude altogether the action of glaciers in eastern America, though I must dissent from any view which...striation itself shows that there must have been extensive glaciers, as now, in the extreme Arctic regions. Yet I think, that most of the alleged instances must... | |
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