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VI.—The Viscous Flow of Glacier-Ice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Although, ever since the classical researches of J. D. Forbes on the phenomena presented by the Swiss glaciers were published, it has been recognized that glacier-ice behaves like a viscous liquid, and flows from high to low levels much in the same way as does a river of water, it is apparent that many who have interested themselves in the subject of glacier-flow, and have written rather dogmatically on the subject, have not clearly realized the nature of the phenomenon. Very contradictory and erroneous conclusions have consequently been arrived at, with the result that it is now somewhat difficult for those who have not made a special study of the subject to distinguish what may be fairly regarded as ascertained fact from that which is purely matter of opinion.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1895

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page 408 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xlvi, p. 438.Google Scholar

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