ce flood, there is possibility that the later development of cirques has, in places, carved out sharp blades and pinnacles from summits that had been rounded by the earlier flood, but this qualification is not believed to be important. The upward diminution of the paring of salient angles is such… … from 3,000 to 6,000 feet, FIG. 67. A FIORD OF THE INSIDE PASSAGE. but many summits were The tops of distant mountains were smoothed . r o r i 1 and blunted by overriding ice. ice-free, borne of the un¬ covered peaks were nunataks, about which ice currents parted to unite again. Others were the…
Natural history -- Alaska · Scientific expeditions · Alaska
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