 I conceive that the upper part of one of these great tabular southern icebergs, including by far the greater part of its bulk, and culminating in the portion exposed above the surface of the sea, was formed by the piling up of successive layers of snow...  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Síða 48eftir Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1875Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | 1875 - 1012 síður
...exposed ab6Ve the surface of the sea, was formed by the piling up of successive layers of snow during the period, amounting perhaps to several centuries,...low land and out to sea over a long extent of gentle elope, until it reached a depth considerably above 200 fathoms, when the lower specific weight of the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1875 - 538 síður
...snow during the period, amounting pethips to several centuries, during which the ice-cap was sjowly forcing itself over the low land and out to sea over...gentle slope, until it reached a depth considerably aboye xio lithoms, when the lower specific weight of the ice caused in upward strain which at length... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1877 - 634 síður
...sea, was formed by the piling up of successive layers of snow during the period, amounting perhaps to centuries, during which the ice-cap was slowly forcing...gentle slope, until it reached a depth considerably beyond 200 fathoms. The lower specific weight of the ice then caused an upward strain which at length... | |
 | 1878 - 556 síður
...during the period, amounting perhaps to centuries, during which the ice-cap was slowly forcing its way over the low land, and out to sea over a long extent...gentle slope, until it reached a depth considerably beyond 200 fathoms, when the lower specific weight of the ice caused an upward strain which at length... | |
 | Arthur Nicols - 1880 - 360 síður
...successive layers of snow during a long period of accumulation, while the ice-cap was slowly forcing its way over the low land, and out to sea over a long extent of gentle slope along the bottom, to a depth of more than 200 fathoms. Being then unahle to resist the strain of its... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell - 1899 - 448 síður
...the greater part of its bulk, * * * was formed by the piling up of successive layers of snow during the period, amounting perhaps to several centuries,...upward strain which at length overcame the cohesion of t'le mass, and portions were rent off and floated away." (Quoted by Prof. Huxley in his "Discourses... | |
 | 1899 - 458 síður
...the greater part of its bulk, * * * was formed by the piling up of successive layers of snow during the period, amounting perhaps to several centuries,...slope, until it reached a depth considerably above i'OO fathoms, when the lower specific weight qf ihe ice caused an upward strain which at length overcame... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell - 1899 - 508 síður
...the greater part of its bulk, * * * was formed by the piling up of successive layers of snow during the period, amounting perhaps to several centuries,...over the low land and out to sea over a long extent nf gentle slope, until it reached a deptli considerably above 200 fathoms, when the lower specific... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1913 - 416 síður
...exposed above the surface of the sea, was formed by the piling up of successive layers of snow during the period, amounting perhaps to several centuries, during which the ice-cap was slowing forcing itself over the low land and out to sea over a long extent of gentle slope, until it... | |
 | Bernadette Hince - 2000 - 416 síður
...XXIII no. I 56: 48. I conceive that the upper part of one of these great tabular southern icebergs .. was formed by the piling up of successive layers of...centuries. during which the ice-cap was slowly forcing over the low land and out to sea. 1915 Mawson. Sir Douglas The home of the blizzard: being the story... | |
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