The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 57
... débris . Much of the country is low and swampy , and is reported to contain numerous lakelets . Northwest of the bay the plateau is higher than toward the southeast , and has a general elevation of about 500 feet at a dis- tance of a ...
... débris . Much of the country is low and swampy , and is reported to contain numerous lakelets . Northwest of the bay the plateau is higher than toward the southeast , and has a general elevation of about 500 feet at a dis- tance of a ...
Page 71
... débris , much of which is of a reddish color . In May , 1874 , when observed by the U. S. Coast Survey party of that year , the extensive flattened top of this table- land or plateau was covered with a smooth and even sheet of pure ...
... débris , much of which is of a reddish color . In May , 1874 , when observed by the U. S. Coast Survey party of that year , the extensive flattened top of this table- land or plateau was covered with a smooth and even sheet of pure ...
Page 82
... débris brought from the moun- tains by former glaciers . When this material was deposited , or soon afterward , the land was depressed about 150 feet lower than at present , as is shown by a terrace cut along the base of the mountains ...
... débris brought from the moun- tains by former glaciers . When this material was deposited , or soon afterward , the land was depressed about 150 feet lower than at present , as is shown by a terrace cut along the base of the mountains ...
Page 89
... débris . In the bottom of the kettle - like depression lay a pond of muddy water , and , as the ice - cliffs about the lakelet melted in the warm sunlight , miniature avalanches of ice and stones , mingled with sticks and bushes that ...
... débris . In the bottom of the kettle - like depression lay a pond of muddy water , and , as the ice - cliffs about the lakelet melted in the warm sunlight , miniature avalanches of ice and stones , mingled with sticks and bushes that ...
Page 90
... débris was clearly of the nature of a moraine , as the ice could be seen beneath it in numerous crevasses ; but no division into marginal or medial moraines could be distinguished . It is really a thin , irregular sheet of comminuted ...
... débris was clearly of the nature of a moraine , as the ice could be seen beneath it in numerous crevasses ; but no division into marginal or medial moraines could be distinguished . It is really a thin , irregular sheet of comminuted ...
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Agassiz glacier Alaska Amazon appears avalanches base beneath Bering Bering island Bering's Blossom island border camp canoe carts chart Coast and Geodetic crest crevasses débris dense Disenchantment bay eastern elevation Elias range Elias region expedition exploration feet flows formed Geodetic Survey GEOG Geological Survey glacial Haenke island height Hitchcock range ice-streams Icy bay indicated Kamshatka Kerr l'Isle l'Isle's lake land longitude lower Lucia glacier Malaspina glacier margin Marvine glacier melting miles moraines Mount Augusta Mount Cook Mount Owen Mount St NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC National Geographic Society névé night observations peaks Pinnacle system plateau Port Mulgrave portion reached ridge river rocks route rugged Russian sandstone Seward glacier shale shore side slope snow snow-fields southern southward steep stones storm stream Street summit surface tent terrace tion topographic tunnel valley vegetation voyage western westward Yakutat bay Yakutat system