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20 over stratified washed moraines have little or no motion. They have been advanced at least a mile over the old reformed moraines. As is shown by the overlying angular fresh mor [moraine] deposits now being laid down & wh [which] are continuous with medial mors of the gl [glacier] now in motio...

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Main Author: Muir, John
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spelling ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmj-all-2859 2023-06-11T04:11:51+02:00 June-July 1890, Trip to Alaska; June-August 1893, Trip to Norway Image 13 Muir, John 1890-06-01T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1860 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2859/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1860 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2859/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg To view additional information on copyright and related rights of this item, such as to purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish them, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies . All John Muir Journals John Muir journals drawings writings travel journaling naturalist text 1890 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:33:27Z 20 over stratified washed moraines have little or no motion. They have been advanced at least a mile over the old reformed moraines. As is shown by the overlying angular fresh mor [moraine] deposits now being laid down & wh [which] are continuous with medial mors of the gl [glacier] now in motion. In the old stratified mor trunks & branches of trees occur at a height of about 100 ft [feet] or a little more above tide water in a finer muddy stratum all at one height, as far as I have seen. Wood sound some of it. Have not yet compared with opp [opposite] shore deposits. No doubt similar That the glacier was once 21 withdrawn considerably back of its present limits seems plain. Immense torrents of water filled in the Inlet with stratified gravel etc & for hundreds of yrs [years] a settled condition of the weather allowed forests to grow on it [them]. Then the gl [glacier] advanced over the deposits at least a mile The snout in center probably 2 ms [miles] or more carrying away the flood deposits, reopening the inlet, uprooting trees Then great thaw wh [which] made the flood that deposited the trees occurred. Also the trees wh [which] grew around the shores above reach of floods were shed off perhaps by thawing of soil resting on buried margin of gl [glacier] left in retreating & protected by mor [moraine] https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2859/thumbnail.jpg Text glacier glacier Alaska University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Norway
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description 20 over stratified washed moraines have little or no motion. They have been advanced at least a mile over the old reformed moraines. As is shown by the overlying angular fresh mor [moraine] deposits now being laid down & wh [which] are continuous with medial mors of the gl [glacier] now in motion. In the old stratified mor trunks & branches of trees occur at a height of about 100 ft [feet] or a little more above tide water in a finer muddy stratum all at one height, as far as I have seen. Wood sound some of it. Have not yet compared with opp [opposite] shore deposits. No doubt similar That the glacier was once 21 withdrawn considerably back of its present limits seems plain. Immense torrents of water filled in the Inlet with stratified gravel etc & for hundreds of yrs [years] a settled condition of the weather allowed forests to grow on it [them]. Then the gl [glacier] advanced over the deposits at least a mile The snout in center probably 2 ms [miles] or more carrying away the flood deposits, reopening the inlet, uprooting trees Then great thaw wh [which] made the flood that deposited the trees occurred. Also the trees wh [which] grew around the shores above reach of floods were shed off perhaps by thawing of soil resting on buried margin of gl [glacier] left in retreating & protected by mor [moraine] https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2859/thumbnail.jpg
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