Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General ReaderHobbs, William Herbert
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Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader
Hobbs, William Herbert
Geology; Physical geography
289. Cross section of the Blue Grotto, on the island of Capri 258
290. Character profiles of coast elevation and subsidence 259
291. Map showing the distribution of existing glaciers and the
two important wind poles of the earth 263
292. An Alaskan glacier spreading out at the foot of the range
which nourishes it 264
293. Surface of a glacier whose upper layers spread with but
slight restraint from retaining walls 265
294. Section through a mountain glacier 267
295. Profile across the largest of the Icelandic ice caps 267
296. Ideal section across a continental glacier 267
297. View of the Eyriks Jökull, an ice cap of Iceland 268
298. The zones of the lower atmosphere as revealed by recent kite
and balloon exploration 269
299. Map of Greenland, showing the area of inland ice and the
routes of explorers 271
300. Profile in natural proportions across the southern end of
the continental glacier of Greenland 272
301. Map of a glacier tongue with dimple above 273
302. Edge of the Greenland inland ice, showing the nunataks
diminishing in size toward the interior 274
303. Moat surrounding a nunatak in Victoria Land 274
304. A glacier pavement of Permo-Carboniferous age in South
Africa 276
305. Diagrams to illustrate the manner of formation of scape
colks 277
306. Marginal moraine now forming at the edge of the continental
glacier of Greenland 279
307. Small lake between the ice front and a moraine which it has
recently built 279
308. View of a drained lake bottom between the ice front and an
abandoned moraine 280
309. Diagrams to show the manner of formation and the structure
of an outwash plain and fosse 280
310. Map of the ice masses of Victoria Land, Antarctica 282
311. Sections across the inland ice and the shelf ice of
Antarctica 283
312. Diagram to show the nature of the fixed glacial anticyclone
above continental glaciers 284
313. Snow deltas about the margins of a glacier tongue in
Greenland 285
314. View of the sea ice of the Arctic region 286
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