July-August 1879, Alaska Trip Image 50

phenomena are so fresh, made a difficult problem for me as there is little or almost no washed moraine material found in connection with the small and medium sized glaciers of the Sierra. Here the problem was fully solved. Nearly all of the moraine matter of this glacier was not only rounded but rou...

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Main Author: Muir, John
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Scholarly Commons 1879
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Online Access:https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1430
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Summary:phenomena are so fresh, made a difficult problem for me as there is little or almost no washed moraine material found in connection with the small and medium sized glaciers of the Sierra. Here the problem was fully solved. Nearly all of the moraine matter of this glacier was not only rounded but roughly stratified before it traveled a single yard from the snout. This { Sketch: figure about 6 ft. long; totem of the Sakes family, New Stickeen village, Wrangell. } https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2429/thumbnail.jpg