 | JAMES GEIKIE - 1877 - 602 Seiten
...enclose deep hollows and pits between. Seen from some dominant point, such an assemblage of Jcames, as they are called, looks like a tumbled sea — the...sharp ridges that often wheel suddenly round so as to enclose a lakelet of bright clear water. Fine examples of sand and gravel hills are seen in Lanarkshire,... | |
 | Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey - 1877 - 932 Seiten
...such an assemblage of Barnes, as they are called, looks like a tumbled sea — 'the ground nowswelling into long undulations, now rising suddenly into beautiful...sharp ridges that often wheel suddenly round so as to enclose a lakelet of bright, clear water." The width of the Range is from one to ten miles, and its... | |
 | Wisconsin. Chief Geologist - 1877 - 906 Seiten
...the ground now swelling into long undulations, now rising suddenly into beautiful peaks and cone«, and anon curving up in sharp ridges that often wheel suddenly round so as to enclose a lakelet of bright, clear water." The width of the Range is from one to ten miles, and its... | |
 | Wisconsin geol. and nat. hist. survey - 1877 - 912 Seiten
...swelling into long undulations, now rising suddenly into beautiful peaks and cones, and anon during up in sharp ridges that often wheel suddenly round so as to enclose a lakelet of bright, clear water." The width of the Range is from one to ten miles, and its... | |
 | 1883 - 836 Seiten
...assemblage of lcames,im they are called, looks like a tumbled sea — the ground now swelling iuto long undulations, now rising suddenly into beautiful...so as to inclose a lakelet of bright, clear water. * This, as.a topographical type, if not in origin, is certainly to be distinguished from the linear... | |
 | Indiana. Dept. of Geology and Natural History - 1886 - 376 Seiten
...pits between. Seen from some dominant point, such an assemblage of kames, as they are called, look like a tumbled sea, the ground now swelling into long...sharp ridges, that often wheel suddenly round so as to enclose a lakelet of bright, clear water." The lakelets, however, are absent from this locality, as... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - 1886 - 384 Seiten
...pits between. Seen from some dominant point, such an assemblage of kames, as they are called, look like a tumbled sea, the ground now swelling into long...sharp ridges, that often wheel suddenly round so as to enclose a lakelet of bright, clear water." The lakelets, however, are absent from this locality, as... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1889 - 704 Seiten
...Geologists and Naturalists," l^rWPB?PW*S. ^iXfef'^-f" r<sSSB33? ™ >*• Sfrv »» _ X >*-- /"-• — 201> the various subsoils laid bare. Occasionally, ridges...suddenly round so as to inclose a lakelet of bright elear water.* From this description it will be seen that there are some remarkable resemblances between... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 Seiten
...conspicuous ones being upward of four or five hundred feet broad at the base, and sloping upward at an augle of twenty-five or even thirty-five degrees, to a height...kames and terminal moraines, since both of them are characterized by confused hummocks and tortuous ridges of glacial debris, connected with numerous bowl-shaped... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 Seiten
...swelling into long undulations, now rising suddenly into beautiful peaks and cones, and anon curving np in sharp ridges that often wheel suddenly round so...kames and terminal moraines, since both of them are characterized by confused hummocks and tortuous ridges of glacial debria, connected with numerous bowl-shaped... | |
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... and more above the general surface of the ground. It is most common, however, to find mounds and ridges confusedly intermingled, crossing and recrossing each other at all angles, so as to inclose deep hollows and pits between. Seen from some dominant... 
