The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 42
... formation to an unequal distribution of temperature with resulting mean diminution of pressure , and the movement of the air from places of high to places of low pressure , the lower air ascending with a gyratory motion , while air ...
... formation to an unequal distribution of temperature with resulting mean diminution of pressure , and the movement of the air from places of high to places of low pressure , the lower air ascending with a gyratory motion , while air ...
Page 43
... formation and subsequent maintenance and progress of the cyclone . Some real progress in charting lines of equal density seems to have been made by M. Nils Ekholm following Professor Abbe's system of “ isostaths , " one using the term ...
... formation and subsequent maintenance and progress of the cyclone . Some real progress in charting lines of equal density seems to have been made by M. Nils Ekholm following Professor Abbe's system of “ isostaths , " one using the term ...
Page 55
... Formation of marginal Crevasses- 128 5 - Crevasses near Pinnacle Pass ; from a Photograph 130 6 - Snow Crests on ... forming southeastern Alaska , westward along the base of the Fairweather range , the mountains are exceedingly rugged ...
... Formation of marginal Crevasses- 128 5 - Crevasses near Pinnacle Pass ; from a Photograph 130 6 - Snow Crests on ... forming southeastern Alaska , westward along the base of the Fairweather range , the mountains are exceedingly rugged ...
Page 56
... formed of a low table - land intervening between the mountains and the sea . Yakutat bay is the only bight in this plateau sufficiently deep to reach the mountain to the northward . This bay has a broad opening to the sea ; the distance ...
... formed of a low table - land intervening between the mountains and the sea . Yakutat bay is the only bight in this plateau sufficiently deep to reach the mountain to the northward . This bay has a broad opening to the sea ; the distance ...
Page 57
... formed of stratified sandstones and shales , and owes its origin to the upheaval of the rocks along a line of frac- ture . In other words , it is a gigantic fault scarp . The gravel and bowlders forming the plateau extending oceanward ...
... formed of stratified sandstones and shales , and owes its origin to the upheaval of the rocks along a line of frac- ture . In other words , it is a gigantic fault scarp . The gravel and bowlders forming the plateau extending oceanward ...
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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