RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of? deposit of mer de glace. CUL-DAR5.B70-B71. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.


[B70]

p. 22 deposit of mer de glace

p 45 where moraine rise to surface is [lined] between glaciers & les névés

p 58 blue from crosses – compact ice bluest [illeg] ascend blueness diminishes with compactness

59 névé not blue

p 62 to 75 on organism of glaciers Agassiz

p 100 on angular & rounded blocks only surface Rocks angular

102 in usage part or fragments on surface

104 no stone in Glacier

do at certain height near summit boulder began to surface themselves in snow

106 Boulders never rise to surface at spot; when they entered surface of névé

116 only under foot will sink with ice

117 Block rise through & Red ice

[B70v]

122 blocks fall into crevices are they not embedded

153 Suspicious granite block [2 words illeg]

162 I presume glacier adhere to foundation soil

172 [illeg] in upper part foundation below sea lower part above [illeg]

185 [2 words illeg] frozen to soil

186 pebbles at bottom embedded

[3 words illeg] gravel from lakes on [several words illeg] on moraines

266 not moraines on plains ++

[8 lines illeg]

temperature, & moving glacier = [several words illeg] as if there had been walls of ice – 2d good reason

[B71]

p 300 there are proper glaciers in Jura but angular blocks he says could not have been [illeg] transported there – there are no [moraines] from also in Jura

(Mem alludes to stratified deposits on Jura) = [several words illeg] – There is some [illeg] about medley of rocks in [several words illeg] surface all surfaces ice have been moraines.

- why should ice if [several words illeg] Blame

p 318 Blou….. differ partially from moraines deposited before

[B71v]

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