Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader

CHAPTER XXVIII

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THE GLACIER’S SURFACE FEATURES AND THE DEPOSITS UPON ITS BED

The glacier flow—Crevasses and séracs—Bodies given up by the _Glacier des Bossons_—The moraines—Selective melting upon the glacier surface—Glacier drainage—Deposits within the vacated valley—Marks of the earlier occupation of mountains by glaciers—Reading references 390