. The Andes of southern Peru; geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian. Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911); Physical geography; Geology. Fig. 185—Glacial features in the Peru- vian Andes near Arequipa. Sketched from a railway train, July, 1911. The horizontal broken lines represent the lower limit of light snow during late June, 1911. There is a fine succession of moraines in U-shaped valleys in all the mountains of the Arequipa region. A represents a part of Chacchani northwest of Arequipa; B is looking south by east at the northwest end of Chachani near Pampa de Arrieros; G
. The Andes of southern Peru; geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian. Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911); Physical geography; Geology. Fig. 185—Glacial features in the Peru- vian Andes near Arequipa. Sketched from a railway train, July, 1911. The horizontal broken lines represent the lower limit of light snow during late June, 1911. There is a fine succession of moraines in U-shaped valleys in all the mountains of the Arequipa region. A represents a part of Chacchani northwest of Arequipa; B is looking south by east at the northwest end of Chachani near Pampa de Arrieros; G also shows the northwest end of Chacchani from a more distant point. may accumulate, and (2) because with increase of elevation there is a rapid and differential decrease in both the rate of adiabatic cooling and the amount of water vapor; hence the snow-producing forces are more quickly dissipated. Furthermore, the leeward side of a lofty mountain not only receives much less snow proportionally than the leeward side of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bowman, Isaiah, 1878-1950; American Geographical Society of New York. New York, Published for the Americsn Geographical Society of New York by H. Holt
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