The philosophy of the movement of glaciers is but ill understood, even by the most accomplished geologists.
This did not surprise them, as they had already seen several glaciers in the mountain valleys, and they were every hour getting farther within the region of these icy phenomena.
These glaciers all lie at the foot of that vast chain of mountains, which supply the sources of many of the greatest rivers in Europe.
The pretty waterfalls on the sides of the mountains still continued and the glaciers of the summits became more numerous and strongly marked, and descended nearer to the bed of the stream.
This thick carpet of moss extends from the shore line to the edges of the glaciers on the mountain summits, and the constant melting of the ice through the warm summer supplies it with water which it absorbs like a sponge.
Along the steep snow banks and the icy fronts of glaciers steps were cut with knives, while rough alpenstocks from the valley helped them to maintain their footing.
Belcher and Wrangell consider that the black ridges descending from the summits of the mountains, and the fact that the glaciers on Copper River exhibit a covering of vegetation, as proof of the volcanic character of the mountain.
Large glaciers feed its sources by numerous waterfalls, and its cañon-like bed is very picturesque.
Every stream, however small, in this part of the world, with glaciers along its course or upon its tributaries, carries this milk-like water in its current.
At many places in the inland passage from here on, come down the steep timbered mountains the most beautiful waterfalls fed from the glaciershidden in the fog.
Had you looked at the peaks from the lake, you would have seen that, the hoary glaciers excepted, they are still all brown and naked.
The glaciers are almost as bad, though, aren't they, Mrs. Lascelles?
Beyond the serracs was the main stream of comparatively smooth ice, with its mourning band of moraine, and beyond that the mammoth sweep and curve of the Théodule where these glaciers join.
Torrent Tabue, descending from the great glaciers which spread themselves over the eastern slopes of Mont Pelvoux.
The intimate relation existing between the Climates of particular seasons, and the discharge of Icebergs from the great Arctic glaciers has long been perfectly understood and described by both British and American naval officers.
Eleven years ago I spent a whole day in the valley where yesterday everything but the ice of the glaciers was palpably clear to me, and I then saw nothing but plain water and bare rock.
Immense glaciers approached the road; we heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche, and marked the smoke of its passage.
The desert mountains and drearyglaciers are my refuge.
The glaciers that feed the two larger streams must be very extensive, thus showing that the highest range lies still farther to the northward and westward.
How, again, are we to account for the repetition of the phenomenon exhibited by the larger rivers, in every tributary, small or great, from the glaciers to the sea?
And yet the glaciers wore them off to make soil and left them rounded like big pebbles!
His work was quite largely in the Yosemite region of California and among the glaciers of the Sierras and Alaska.
The cause of the concentrated action of the north wind is found in the peculiar form of the north sides of the peaks, where the amphitheaters of the residual glaciers are.
I have seen places where the glaciers had deposited rocks in surprising uniformity of size, and as thick as the heads of an audience (a comparison that means no harm, I trust).
The bodies of guides lost in the crevasses of Alpine glaciers have come to the surface forty years after their interment, without the flesh showing any sign of putrefaction.
This slid down the slopes, and from every valley, strath, and corry, south of Glen Spean, glaciers were poured into that glen.
We find that the larger valleys have been filled for untold ages by glaciers of enormous dimensions, always moving, grinding down and tearing away the rocks over which they passed.
The really strange error was the forgetfulness of the fact that without the heat the substance necessary to the production of glaciers would be wanting.
A knowledge of the action of ancient glaciers was the necessary antecedent to the new explanation, and experience of this nature was not possessed by the distinguished writer just mentioned.
It might be urged that the subsequent invasion of the valley by glaciers has swept the detritus away; but there have been no glaciers in these valleys since the disappearance of the lakes.
Confining the action of glaciers to the simple rubbing away of the rocks, and allowing them sufficient time to act, it is not a matter of opinion, but a physical certainty, that they will scoop out valleys.
But the great collecting ground of the glaciers which dammed the glens and produced the parallel roads, were the mountains south and west of Glen Spean.
The two great factors here brought into play are the nutrition of the glaciers by the frozen material above, and their consumption in the milder air below.
Adhering to the facts now presented to us, it is not difficult to restore in idea the process by which the glaciersof Lochaber were produced and the glens dammed by ice.
Such an epoch would require the long-continued generation of the material from which the ice of glaciers is derived.
This flow from the south would be reinforced from the west, and as long as the supply was in excess of the consumption the glaciers would extend, the dams which closed the glens increasing in height.
It was written among the glaciers and the solitudes of the Swiss mountains.
Thundering snowslides swept away one's work, icy rocks must be cut through, and savage green floods threatened the half-built track when the glaciers began to melt.
The river had fallen and its turbid green had faded, for the frost had touched the glaciers that fed it on the heights, but the stream ran fast, swirling round the island and breaking into eddies.
After a few hours of gazing at the monotonous presentation of glaciers and snow-covered hills and mountains, the boys turned their attention to those on board.
Captain Zoss had gone on ahead with the Indians and just before midnight he came back with a warning to watch out for several splits, or crevasses, in the glaciers they were now traversing.
It was well that they had dressed themselves warmly; for, on account of the sun shining on the glaciers the air was filled with a mist which chilled them to the bone.
The run for the most part is past gigantic glaciers on one side and mountains covered with snow and ice on the other.
From this range long windingglaciers pour down the valleys, and project, through the ravines, into the deep-blue waters of this magnificent strait.
The sunshine and the beauty were gone; savage, cruel, and inhospitable the black pinnacles of the ridges and the overhanging glaciers of cold ice filled my mind with only one thought.
Even the most gigantic of Himalayan glaciers are feeble in comparison with an Arctic ice-sheet such as that on Greenland or on the Antarctic continent.
Here are to be seen the miles of snow-sheds through which the train has to go, whilst towering into the sky are all the white snow-peaks of the Selkirks, and the glaciers that almost come down to the railway itself.
Hastings and I soon saw that any attempt at exploration amongst the higher glaciers was out of the question.
Though much more uneven, it is similar to the lower end of glaciers such as the Zmutt or the Miage.
North of the Kicking Horse pass the peaks and glaciers of the Rocky Mountains have been more carefully explored and for a greater distance than on the south side of the railway.
Thus much knowledge will he gain, making observations on the heights of hills, the efficacy of meat lozenges, the movement of glaciers by day, and the pulex irritans by night.
Near the watershed of a pass beautiful lakes of pure blue water are often found, and in a quiet summer afternoon the long slanting shadows and the reflection of pines, peaks, and glaciers lie still in the clear water.
The glaciers from Nanga Parbat sweep across the valley much in the same way as the Brenva glacier sweeps across the Val Veni, cutting off the upper pasturages from the villages below.
Around the saddle are rugged peaks, rising to a height of five to seven thousand feet; some bare, others piled thickly with snow: and as we watched, avalanches came thundering down from one of the glaciers into the valley beneath.
It flows parallel with the main Divide of the Alps, receiving several tributary glaciersin its course, until it ends abruptly in a high wall of stones and dirty grey ice, five miles from the Hermitage.
Most of the tourists who stop at the Hermitage for longer than one night wish to go for some excursion up one of the glaciers or mountains.
Outside it is growing gradually lighter day by day; the sky above the glaciers in the south grows redder, until at last one day the sun will rise above the crest, and our last winter night be past.
The sun shining on these fog-banks must have glittered so that they were taken forglaciers along a continuous coast.
We glided quickly on along the coast, but unfortunately a mist hung over it, so that it was often impossible to determine whether they were channels or glaciers between the dark patches which we could just distinguish upon it.
Everywhere along the beach the glaciers were covered with red snow, which had a very beautiful effect in the sunshine.
We are reminded that Brooklyn stands on rubble that was rolled down from the New England mountains to the northward by a glacier larger than the combined areas of all the glaciers now existing on the earth.
We must go north to find the snow-fields of Alaska and glaciers worthy to be compared with those ancient ice rivers whose work is plainly to be seen, though they are gone.
Rainier still have glaciers that have dwindled in size, until they bear little comparison to the gigantic ice-streams that once filled the smooth beds their puny successors flow into.
Remnants of glaciers lie in the hollows of the Sierras.
A median moraine, seen as a dark streak running lengthwise on the surface of a glacier, means that two branch glaciers have united to form this one.
There are old moraines far up the sides of valleys, showing that once the glaciers were far deeper than now.
Smooth, deeply scored domes of rock, the one in Central Park and the bald head of Mount Tom, are just like those that lie in Alpine valleys from which the glaciers have long ago retreated.
Below the surface soil lie the rocks of the Quaternary Period, which included the drift laid down by the receding glaciers and the floods that followed the melting of the ice-sheet.
Rivers of ice called glaciers crowd against their banks, loosening rock masses and carrying away fragments of all sizes, in their progress down the valley.
Glaciers have ground away their substance, and given it to the sea.
Instead of glaciers filling the gorges, a great ice flood covered all the land, and pushed southward as far as the Ohio River on the east and Yellowstone Park in the west.
The glaciers of the Alps vary in length from five to fifteen miles, from one to three miles in width, and from two hundred to six hundred feet in thickness.
Darwin was especially impressed by the sight of these when he explored this region, and speaks of them as looking like so many Niagaras, but they are only miniature glaciers after all.
The author has seen huge glaciers in Scandinavia and in Switzerland, forming natural exhibitions of great interest; each country has peculiarities in this respect.
This frosty monarch sends down from its upper regions a score or more of narrow, sky-blue glaciers to the sea through openings in the dusky forest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glaciers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
