Glaciers of the Alps

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Author

Tyndall, John, 1820-1893

Title

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

Credits

Produced by Karl Eichwalder, Stephen H. Sentoff and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

QE: Science: Geology

Subject

Glaciers -- Alps

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34192

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34192

Release Date

November 2, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.PREFATORY NOTE.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — PART I. — PART II.
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS.
6. 6.PART I. CHIEFLY NARRATIVE. — INTRODUCTORY. (1.) — FOOTNOTES: — EXPEDITION OF 1856. THE OBERLAND. (2.) — FOOTNOTES: — THE TYROL. (3.) — FOOTNOTES: — EXPEDITION OF 1857. THE LAKE OF GENEVA. (4.) — CHAMOUNI AND THE MONTANVERT. (5.) — THE MER DE GLACE. (6.) — (7.) — FOOTNOTES: — (8.) — THE JARDIN. (9.) — FOOTNOTES: — (10.) — FIRST ASCENT OF MONT BLANC, 1857. (11.) — FOOTNOTES: — (12.) — EXPEDITION OF 1858. (13.) — PASSAGE OF THE STRAHLECK. (14.) — (15.) — FOOTNOTES: — ASCENT OF THE FINSTERAARHORN, 1858. (16.) — FOOTNOTES: — (17.) — FIRST ASCENT OF MONTE ROSA, 1858. (18.) — FOOTNOTES: — (19.) — FOOTNOTES: — THE GÖRNER GRAT AND THE RIFFELHORN. MAGNETIC PHENOMENA. (20.) — FOOTNOTES: — (21.) — FOOTNOTES: — SECOND ASCENT OF MONTE ROSA, 1858. (22.) — (23.) — (24.) — FOOTNOTES: — SECOND ASCENT OF MONT BLANC, 1858. (25.) — FOOTNOTES: — (26.) — WINTER EXPEDITION TO THE MER DE GLACE, 1859. (27.) — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.PART II. CHIEFLY SCIENTIFIC. — ON LIGHT AND HEAT. (1.) — FOOTNOTES: — (2.) — FOOTNOTES: — (3.) — FOOTNOTES: — ORIGIN OF GLACIERS. (4.) — (5.) — COLOUR OF WATER AND ICE. (6.) — FOOTNOTES: — COLOURS OF THE SKY. (7.) — FOOTNOTES: — THE MORAINES. (8.) — GLACIER MOTION. PRELIMINARY. (9.) — MOTION OF THE MER DE GLACE. (10.) — FOOTNOTES: — ICE-WALL AT THE TACUL. VELOCITIES OF TOP AND BOTTOM. (11.) — FOOTNOTES: — WINTER MOTION OF THE MER DE GLACE. (12.) — CAUSE OF GLACIER-MOTION. DE SAUSSURE'S THEORY. (13.) — FOOTNOTES: — RENDU'S THEORY. (14.) — FOOTNOTES: — (15.) — FORBES'S THEORY. (16.) — FOOTNOTES: — THE CREVASSES. (17.) — (18.) — FOOTNOTES: — HEAT AND WORK. (19.) — FOOTNOTES: — (20.) — FOOTNOTES: — THOMSON'S THEORY. (21.) — THE PRESSURE-THEORY OF GLACIER-MOTION. (22.) — FOOTNOTES: — REGELATION. (23.) — CRYSTALLIZATION AND INTERNAL LIQUEFACTION. (24.) — THE MOULINS. (25.) — FOOTNOTES: — DIRT-BANDS OF THE MER DE GLACE. (26.) — FOOTNOTES: — THE VEINED STRUCTURE OF GLACIERS. (27.) — FOOTNOTES: — THE VEINED STRUCTURE AND THE DIFFERENTIAL MOTION. (28.) — FOOTNOTES: — THE RIPPLE-THEORY OF THE VEINED STRUCTURE. (29.) — THE VEINED STRUCTURE AND PRESSURE. (30.) — FOOTNOTES: — THE VEINED STRUCTURE AND THE LIQUEFACTION OF ICE BY PRESSURE. (31.) — FOOTNOTES: — WHITE ICE-SEAMS IN THE GLACIER DU GÉANT. (32.) — FOOTNOTES: — (33.)
8. 8.PARTIAL SUMMARY.
9. 9.APPENDIX. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.INDEX.
11. 11.WORKS by JOHN TYNDALL.
12. 12.Transcriber's Notes.

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