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the accumulation of tundra moss and humus would eventually check the waste. As it is, the formation will not last much longer, a thousand years, or two thousand, perhaps. Mingled with the true glacial ice are masses of dirty stratified ice, made up of layers of clear ice alternating with layers of m...
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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmj-all-3178 2023-06-11T04:17:23+02:00 June-October 1881, Cruise of the Corwin, Part II Image 177 Muir, John 1881-06-01T07:52:58Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2179 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3178/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2179 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3178/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 1881 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:34:03Z the accumulation of tundra moss and humus would eventually check the waste. As it is, the formation will not last much longer, a thousand years, or two thousand, perhaps. Mingled with the true glacial ice are masses of dirty stratified ice, made up of layers of clear ice alternating with layers of mud and sand, mingled with bits of humus and sphagnum and fragments of nearly everything belonging to the tundra. This dirty ice of peculiar stratification never blends into the clean ice, but is simply frozen upon it, fillings cavities and angles, or spread over some slope, and has its origin simply in the freezing of oozing films of clear or dirty water from the broken edge of the tundra above, and is, of course, comparatively a recent formation which is going on every fall and spring when frosts https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3178/thumbnail.jpg Text Tundra University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons |
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the accumulation of tundra moss and humus would eventually check the waste. As it is, the formation will not last much longer, a thousand years, or two thousand, perhaps. Mingled with the true glacial ice are masses of dirty stratified ice, made up of layers of clear ice alternating with layers of mud and sand, mingled with bits of humus and sphagnum and fragments of nearly everything belonging to the tundra. This dirty ice of peculiar stratification never blends into the clean ice, but is simply frozen upon it, fillings cavities and angles, or spread over some slope, and has its origin simply in the freezing of oozing films of clear or dirty water from the broken edge of the tundra above, and is, of course, comparatively a recent formation which is going on every fall and spring when frosts https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3178/thumbnail.jpg |
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