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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmj-all-3186 2023-06-11T04:17:23+02:00 June-October 1881, Cruise of the Corwin, Part II Image 185 Muir, John 1881-06-01T07:52:58Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2187 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3186/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2187 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3186/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 2023-05-06T22:33:53Z by the river floods when the ice of the glacier that occupied side, especially where the tundra is low and flat, say 40 ft. high and covered with pools and strips of water, is not glacial ice, but ice derived from freezing of the water in veins and pools and water-cut hollows that have subsequently been dammed and then exposed by the wasting of the tundra on the edges by the action of the tide-water. On the surface of the tundra one sees at a glance that the river sediments on which the mossy covering is growing has been cracked by the frost in every direction. Into these crashed the tundra water from the melting snow and the rain falls to freeze again and again and press the sides of the fissure farther apart, https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3186/thumbnail.jpg Text Tundra University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons |
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by the river floods when the ice of the glacier that occupied side, especially where the tundra is low and flat, say 40 ft. high and covered with pools and strips of water, is not glacial ice, but ice derived from freezing of the water in veins and pools and water-cut hollows that have subsequently been dammed and then exposed by the wasting of the tundra on the edges by the action of the tide-water. On the surface of the tundra one sees at a glance that the river sediments on which the mossy covering is growing has been cracked by the frost in every direction. Into these crashed the tundra water from the melting snow and the rain falls to freeze again and again and press the sides of the fissure farther apart, https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/3186/thumbnail.jpg |
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