Glaciers

Examples

• Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist even at much more considerable heights. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The snowy mountains and blue glaciers shone in their own light. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• How are Glaciers Formed? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Glaciers spread from the poles towards the equator, until England to the Thames was covered in ice. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The glaciers spread southward to the maximum of the Fourth Glacial Age (about 50,000 years ago), and then receded again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Glaciers exist in all zones in which mountains rise above the snow-line, that is, the height where it is so cold that there is always snow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There are numerous glaciers and mountain lakes and the locality presents many examples of sublime scenery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So greatly has the climate of Europe changed, that in Northern Italy, gigantic moraines, left by old glaciers, are now clothed by the vine and maize. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In the Cordillera of South America, nearly under the equator, glaciers once extended far below their present level. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Immense glaciers approached the road; we heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche, and marked the smoke of its passage. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• One of the most famous glaciers of the Alps is the Mer de Glace, belonging to Mont Blanc, in the valley of Chamouni, about fifty-seven hundred feet above the level of the sea. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the Lebanon, according to Dr. Hooker, perpetual snow formerly covered the central axis, and fed glaciers which rolled 4,000 feet down the valleys. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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