Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by DrNansen and LieutJohansen . DIAGRAMS OF ICE WITH LAYERS water, specimens of which I found at an earlier several places the strata were bent and broken, ex-actly in the same manner as the geological strata form-ing the earths crust. This was evidently the result ofthe horizontal pressure in the ice at the time of pack-ing. It was especially noticeable at one place, near ahuge mound formed during the last pressure. Here 402 FARTHEST NORTH the strata looked v
Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by DrNansen and LieutJohansen . DIAGRAMS OF ICE WITH LAYERS water, specimens of which I found at an earlier several places the strata were bent and broken, ex-actly in the same manner as the geological strata form-ing the earths crust. This was evidently the result ofthe horizontal pressure in the ice at the time of pack-ing. It was especially noticeable at one place, near ahuge mound formed during the last pressure. Here 402 FARTHEST NORTH the strata looked very much as they are represented inthe annexed drawing.* It was extraordinary too to see how this floe of overthree yards in thickness was bent into great waves with-out breaking. This was clearly done by pressure, andwas specially noticeable, more particularly near the press-ure-rido;es, which had forced the floe down so that itsupper surface lay even with the water-line, while atother places it was a good half-yard above it, in theselast cases thrust up by ice pressed in below. It allshows how extremely plastic these floes are, in spite ofthe cold; th
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