. Manual of the natural history, geology and physics of Greenland and the neighbouring regions / prepared for the use of the Arctic expedition of 1875, under the direction of the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society and edited by T. Rupert Jones. Together with Instructions suggested by the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society for the use of the expedition / published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty [microform]. Natural history; Scientific expeditions; Sciences naturelles; Expéditions scientifiques. Fig. 4. Inland Ice (A) extending into the Sea (D) and terminating in
. Manual of the natural history, geology and physics of Greenland and the neighbouring regions / prepared for the use of the Arctic expedition of 1875, under the direction of the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society and edited by T. Rupert Jones. Together with Instructions suggested by the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society for the use of the expedition / published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty [microform]. Natural history; Scientific expeditions; Sciences naturelles; Expéditions scientifiques. Fig. 4. Inland Ice (A) extending into the Sea (D) and terminating in a steep edge, 100 to 200 feet liigh. glaciers are produced, from Avhich indeed large ice-masses fall down, ])ut do not give rise to any real iceberg. But if the month of the fjord be narrow, the depth of the outlying sea great, and the inclination of the shore considerable, the result Avill be one of those magnificent ice-fjords which Rink so admirably describes, and which we, later in the course of our journey, had an opportunity of visiting. The following diagram will illustrate this more clearly. 1,500 Fig. 5. Inland lue abutting on the bottom of im ice-fjord, , a fjord in which real icebergs are tormed. c c 2 M •1. 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 Jones, T. Rupert (Thomas Rupert), 1819-1911; Royal Society. Arctic Committee; Great Britain. Admiralty. London : Printed for H. M. S. O.
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