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Papers on Glaciers. No. 2, describing the Rate of Motion of the Ice of the Mer de Glace, deduced from observation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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The author detailed in this paper the methods of observation by which he was enabled to ascertain the daily and even hourly motion of different parts of the glacier.

The following are some of the principal results:—

I. In the particular case of the Mer de Glace, the motion of the higher parts of the glacier are on the whole slower than those of its lower portion, but the motion of the middle region is slower than either.

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Proceedings 1842–43
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1844

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