 | 1863 - 320 oldal
...that they merely filled valleys which. iad been previously formed by water denudation. Indeed the I choice lies between these two suppositions : shall...self-destructive. The more deeply it ploughs the surface of the earth, the more must it retreat. Let the present Alpine valleys be filled to the level of the adjacent... | |
 | 1864 - 382 oldal
...disappearance the ordinary denuding action of the atmosphere has been unable, in most cases, to obliterate even the superficial traces of the glaciers, suggests the...self-destructive. The more deeply it ploughs the surface of the earth, the more must it retreat. Let the present Alpine valleys be filled to the level of the adjacent... | |
 | 1865 - 372 oldal
...disappearance the ordinary denuding action of the atmosphere has been unable, in most cases, to obliterate even the superficial traces of the glaciers, suggests the...essentially self-destructive. The more deeply it ploughs tht surface of the earth, the more must it retreat. Let the present Alpine valleys be filled to the... | |
 | 1865 - 372 oldal
...cases, to obliterate even the superficial traces of the glaciers, suggests the incompetence ofthat action to produce the same effect. That the glaciers...self-destructive. The more deeply it ploughs the surface of the earth, the more must it retreat. Let the present Alpine valleys be filled to the level of the adjacent... | |
 | 1867 - 378 oldal
...disappearance the ordinary denuding action of the atmosphere has been unable, in most cases, to obliterate even the superficial traces of the glaciers, suggests the...self-destructive. The more deeply it ploughs the surface of the earth, the more must it retreat. Let the present Alpine valleys be filled to the level of the adjacent... | |
 | Edward Whymper - 1871 - 520 oldal
...glaciers filled valleys which were previously formed by what would undoubtedly be a weaker agent 1 or shall we conclude that they have been the excavators...it ? I do not hesitate to accept the latter view." — Phil Mag., Sept, 1862, p. 172. Except for the character of the magazine in which Dr. Tyndall's... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1912 - 458 oldal
...glaciers have been the real excavators seems to me far more probable than the supposition that they merely filled valleys, which were previously formed by what...intersect it? I do not hesitate to accept the latter view."1 As, however, this view was at once repudiated, even by those who credited glaciers with considerable... | |
 | Thomas George Bonney - 1913 - 460 oldal
...glaciers have been the real excavators seems to me far more probable than the supposition that they merely filled valleys, which were previously formed by what...it ? I do not hesitate to accept the latter view." ' As, however, this view was at once repudiated, even by those who credited glaciers with considerable... | |
 | 1862 - 1550 oldal
...produce the same effect. That the glaciers have been the real excavators, seems to me far more pro. bable than the supposition that they merely filled valleys...further. According to it the glacier is essentially self.¿ destructive. The more deeply it ploughs the surface of the earth, the more must it retreat.... | |
 | Edward Whymper - 1996 - 518 oldal
...glaciers filled valleys which were previously formed by what would undoubtedly be a weaker agent i or shall we conclude that they have been the excavators...uplifted land with the valleys which now intersect it 1 l do not hesitate to accept the latter vicw.'' — Phil. Mag., Sept- 1862, p. 172. Except for the... | |
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... denuding action of the atmosphere has been unable, in most cases, to obliterate even the superficial traces of the glaciers, suggests the incompetence of that action to produce the same effect. That the glaciers have been the real excavators, seems... 