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Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club (1859)

Ball, John (Ed.) · Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts (London) · leaf 442

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cap, xv1.] THE KIRCHET. All greater than the summit of the Kirchet, and pushing against and over that barrier of rock. As the glacier decreased, and no longer overflowed the rocks, it would for a time still abut on the eastern side of the barrier. Finally, when it still further declined in size,… … Thus it would remain till the running water by degrees cut for itself a channel as deep as the bottom of the lake, then partly filled with mud and other ice-drifted deposits. I was long much puzzled by the stratified and drift-like appearance of some of the débris (including boulders) on the lower…

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