Lexicographical Neighbors of Crevassing
Literary usage of Crevassing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1914)
"In view of the remarkable extension and continuation of crevassing observed by
the senior author in 1906, this beginning of ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904)
"lility, it would adapt itself to tension brought to bear upon it so slowly as
are many of the tensions which produce crevassing. In its behavior under ..."
3. College Physiography by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin (1914)
"In rapidly flowing glaciers, even on a regular bed, thert- is great crevassing,
and the glacier may be so broken as to be impassable from one side to the ..."
4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"... falling through the ice at these points, since crevassing would, probably,
occur as early where the ice bends over the summit of a drumlin as anywhere. ..."
5. Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia by Geographical Society of Philadelphia (1908)
"This crevassing was found to extend southwestward along the shores of Yakutat
Bay, as far as could be seen from the mouth of the Kwik. ..."
6. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1897)
"The notable feature of the surface is the crevassing. The nunatak beyond the
Bowdoin glacier on the right is the Sierra, that on the left the Sentinel. ..."
7. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"The pointed jagged masses of ice made by crevassing are called seracs. ...
Thus the glacier in its course is subjected in places to crevassing which may ..."
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