Aspects Of The Geology Of Southwest Oscar Ii Land Spitsbergen

Author : Adolf Erik Nordenskild
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781458975737
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Sketch of the Geology of Spitzbergen written by Adolf Erik Nordenskild and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JL times happens with rivers of unfrozen water. But wherever a glacier advances, it crushes the solid rock, and consequently contributes to the destruction of one of the most important conditions for its own existence, namely rocks or mountains that rise above the snow line; so that, should no other influences counteract the leveling action of the glaciers, it might be expected that the whole of Spitzbergen would within a very short period, geologically speaking, form one vast lowland, free from ice in the summer. The mighty denudation at Spitzbergen is however counterbalanced, to a considerable degree, by the rapidity, with which the land is rising; a rapidity which seeu, s far to exceed that of the upheaval of land in most other parts. If we compare the map of Spitzbergen published by us, with Dutch charts of earlier date as, for instance, that of Commodore Giles and Outger Rep, we are at once struck by a remarkable difference between them. To the North-west and Southwest, the North-east Land extends in three peninsulas of considerable size, the extremities of which are in our map designated by the names North Cape, Shoal Point and Cape Sparrc. All these peninsulas are covered with mountains of considerable height, which however have no connection with the highland of the interior, but are separated from it by low valleys. TJ, ese valleys are on old charts delineated as sounds, and h, these sounds, ce often find rocks and glaciers marked; which seems to indicate that the country was well known to the Hollanders and that their maps were based on real observations. An adjacent island situated between North Cap and Shoal Point, and most caracteristically named Low Island, is on these old maps delineated smaller than Moffen, though that islet, at least at present, is not a twent.