| Science - 1854 - 414 pages
...and water in Arctic or Antarctic regions, are now essentially the seats of glaciers and icebergs ; so we know that these bodies alone have the power...rocks bears on its surface the signs of having been winterworn, or rounded by aqueous or atmospheric agency ; the great blocks of the later cold period,... | |
| Geology - 1854 - 414 pages
...regions, are now essentially the seats of glaciers and icebergs ; so we know that these bodies alune have the power of transporting huge erratic blocks...icebergs. Now, of the translation of such blocks we have VOL. LVII. NO. CXIV. — OCTOBER 1854. X no evidence whatever in any former geological period ! On... | |
| 1854 - 632 pages
...regions, are now essentially the seats of glaciers and icerafts; so we know that these bodies nlone have the power of transporting huge, erratic blocks...distances by land, or for hundreds of miles over the sea on floating icebergs. Now, of the translation of such blocks, we have no evidence whatever in any former... | |
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