Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- § 1 Clouds, Rains, and Rivers
- § 2 Clouds, Rains, and Rivers
- § 3 The Waves of Light
- § 4 The Waves of Heat which produce the Vapour of our Atmosphere and melt our Glaciers
- § 5 Experiments to prove the foregoing statements
- § 6 Oceanic Distillation
- § 7 Tropical Rains
- § 8 Mountain Condensers
- § 9 Architecture of Snow
- § 10 Atomic Poles
- § 11 Architecture of Lake Ice
- § 12 The Source of the Arveiron. Ice Pinnacles, Towers, and Chasms of the Glacier des Bois. Passage to the Montanvert
- § 13 The Mer de Glace and its Sources. Our First Climb to the Cleft Station
- § 14 Ice-cascade and Snows of the Col du Géant
- § 15 Questioning the Glaciers
- § 16 Branches and Medial Moraines of the Mer de Glace from the Cleft Station
- § 17 The Talèfre and the Jardin. Work among the Crevasses
- § 18 First Questions regarding Glacier Motion. Drifting of Bodies buried in a Crevasse
- § 19 The Motion of Glaciers. Measurements by Htigi and Agassiz. Drifting of Huts on the Ice
- § 20 Precise Measurements of Agassiz and Forbes. Motion of a Glacier proved to resemble the Motion of a River
- § 21 The Theodolite and its Use. Our own Measurements
- § 22 Motion of the Mer de Glace
- § 23 Unequal Motion of the two Sides of the Mer de Glace
- § 24 Suggestion of a new Likeness of Glacier Motion to River Motion. Conjecture tested
- § 25 New Law of Glacier Motion
- § 26 Motion of Axis of Mer de Glace
- § 27 Motion of Tributary Glaciers
- § 28 Motion of Top and Bottom of Glacier
- § 29 Lateral Compression of a Glacier
- § 30 Longitudinal Compression of a Glacier
- § 31 Sliding and Flowing. Hard Ice and Soft Ice
- § 32 Winter on the Mer de Glace
- § 33 Winter Motion of the Mar de Glace
- § 34 Motion of the Grindelwald and Aletseh Glacier
- § 35 Motion of Morteratsch Glacier
- § 36 Birth of a Crevasse: Reflections
- § 37 Icicles
- § 38 The Bergschrund
- § 39 Transverse Crevasses
- § 40 Marginal Crevasses
- § 41 Longitudinal Crevasses
- § 42 Crevasses in relation to Curvature of Glacier
- § 43 Moraine-ridges, Glacier Tables, and Sand Cones
- § 44 The Glacier Mills or Moulins
- § 45 The Changes of Volume of Water by Heat and Cold
- § 46 Consequences flowing from the foregoing Properties of Water. Correction of Errors
- § 47 The Molecular Mechanism of Water-Congelation
- § 48 The Dirt Bands of the Mer de Glace
- § 49 Sea-ice and Icebergs
- § 50 The Æggischhorn, the Märgelin See and its Icebergs
- § 51 The Bel Alp
- § 52 The Riffelberg and Görner Glacier
- § 53 Ancient Glaciers of Switzerland
- § 54 Erratic Blocks
- § 55 Ancient Glaciers of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
- § 56 The Glacier Epoch
- § 57 Glacial Theories
- § 58 Dilatation and Sliding Theories
- § 59 Plastic Theory
- § 60 Viscous Theory
- § 61 Regelation Theory
- § 62 Cause of Regelation
- § 63 Faraday's View of Regelation
- § 64 The Blue Veins of Glaciers
- § 65 Relation of Structure to Pressure
- § 66 Slate Cleavage and Glacier Lamination
- § 67 Conclusion
§ 25 - New Law of Glacier Motion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- § 1 Clouds, Rains, and Rivers
- § 2 Clouds, Rains, and Rivers
- § 3 The Waves of Light
- § 4 The Waves of Heat which produce the Vapour of our Atmosphere and melt our Glaciers
- § 5 Experiments to prove the foregoing statements
- § 6 Oceanic Distillation
- § 7 Tropical Rains
- § 8 Mountain Condensers
- § 9 Architecture of Snow
- § 10 Atomic Poles
- § 11 Architecture of Lake Ice
- § 12 The Source of the Arveiron. Ice Pinnacles, Towers, and Chasms of the Glacier des Bois. Passage to the Montanvert
- § 13 The Mer de Glace and its Sources. Our First Climb to the Cleft Station
- § 14 Ice-cascade and Snows of the Col du Géant
- § 15 Questioning the Glaciers
- § 16 Branches and Medial Moraines of the Mer de Glace from the Cleft Station
- § 17 The Talèfre and the Jardin. Work among the Crevasses
- § 18 First Questions regarding Glacier Motion. Drifting of Bodies buried in a Crevasse
- § 19 The Motion of Glaciers. Measurements by Htigi and Agassiz. Drifting of Huts on the Ice
- § 20 Precise Measurements of Agassiz and Forbes. Motion of a Glacier proved to resemble the Motion of a River
- § 21 The Theodolite and its Use. Our own Measurements
- § 22 Motion of the Mer de Glace
- § 23 Unequal Motion of the two Sides of the Mer de Glace
- § 24 Suggestion of a new Likeness of Glacier Motion to River Motion. Conjecture tested
- § 25 New Law of Glacier Motion
- § 26 Motion of Axis of Mer de Glace
- § 27 Motion of Tributary Glaciers
- § 28 Motion of Top and Bottom of Glacier
- § 29 Lateral Compression of a Glacier
- § 30 Longitudinal Compression of a Glacier
- § 31 Sliding and Flowing. Hard Ice and Soft Ice
- § 32 Winter on the Mer de Glace
- § 33 Winter Motion of the Mar de Glace
- § 34 Motion of the Grindelwald and Aletseh Glacier
- § 35 Motion of Morteratsch Glacier
- § 36 Birth of a Crevasse: Reflections
- § 37 Icicles
- § 38 The Bergschrund
- § 39 Transverse Crevasses
- § 40 Marginal Crevasses
- § 41 Longitudinal Crevasses
- § 42 Crevasses in relation to Curvature of Glacier
- § 43 Moraine-ridges, Glacier Tables, and Sand Cones
- § 44 The Glacier Mills or Moulins
- § 45 The Changes of Volume of Water by Heat and Cold
- § 46 Consequences flowing from the foregoing Properties of Water. Correction of Errors
- § 47 The Molecular Mechanism of Water-Congelation
- § 48 The Dirt Bands of the Mer de Glace
- § 49 Sea-ice and Icebergs
- § 50 The Æggischhorn, the Märgelin See and its Icebergs
- § 51 The Bel Alp
- § 52 The Riffelberg and Görner Glacier
- § 53 Ancient Glaciers of Switzerland
- § 54 Erratic Blocks
- § 55 Ancient Glaciers of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
- § 56 The Glacier Epoch
- § 57 Glacial Theories
- § 58 Dilatation and Sliding Theories
- § 59 Plastic Theory
- § 60 Viscous Theory
- § 61 Regelation Theory
- § 62 Cause of Regelation
- § 63 Faraday's View of Regelation
- § 64 The Blue Veins of Glaciers
- § 65 Relation of Structure to Pressure
- § 66 Slate Cleavage and Glacier Lamination
- § 67 Conclusion
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