NOT the least fascinating of the many aspects of Alpine studies is that of the geological history and growth of the elevated region from which the peaks as we see them have been carved. With good ...
THE existence of great overthrusts in the Alps was recognised by Escher von der Linth in 1853, and by von Richthofen in 1859, and was proved from the mining at Idria by Lipold in 1874; but it was only ...