The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related — John Shaqi
The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are relatedTyndall, John
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The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related
Tyndall, John
Alps -- Description and travel; Glaciers -- Alps
Fig. Page
1. Ice Minaret 14
2. Diagram of an angular reflector 16
3, 4. Boats' sails inverted by Atmospheric Refraction 35
5. Wave-like forms on the Mer de Glace 43
6. Glacier Table 44
7. Tributaries of the Mer de Glace 53
8. Magnetic Boulder of the Riffelhorn 143
9, 10, 11, 12. Luminous Trees projected against the sky
at sunrise 180, 181
13. Snow on the Pines 201
14, 15. Snow Crystals 214
16. Chasing produced by waves 233
17. Diagram explanatory of Interference 234
18. Interference Spectra, produced by Diffraction _To face_ 235
19. Moraines of the Mer de Glace " 264
20. Typical section of a glacier Table 266
21. Locus of the Point of Maximum Motion 286
22. Inclinations of ice cascade of the Glacier des Bois 313
23. Inclinations of Mer de Glace above l'Angle 314
24. Fantastic Mass of ice 316
25. Diagram explanatory of the mechanical origin of Crevasses 318
26. Diagram showing the line of Greatest Strain 319
27A, B. Section and Plan of a portion of the Lower
Grindelwald Glacier 322
28. Diagram illustrating the crevassing of Convex Sides
of glacier 323
29. Diagram illustrating test of viscosity 326
30, 31, 32, 33. Moulds used in experiments with ice 346-348
34. Liquid Flowers in lake ice 355
35. Dirt-bands of the Mer de Glace, as seen from a
point near the Flegere _To face_ 367
36. Ditto, as seen from les Charmoz " 368
37. Ditto, as seen from the Cleft Station, Trelaporte " 369
38. Plan of Dirt-bands taken from Johnson's 'Physical Atlas' 374
39. Veined Structure on the walls of crevasses 381
40. Figure explanatory of the Marginal Structure 383
41. Plan of part of ice-fall, and of glacier below
it (Glacier of the Rhone) 386
42. Section of ditto 386
43. Figure explanatory of Longitudinal Structure 388
44.
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