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