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... Surface - Faults of the Colorado region , and of the Great Basin - Depression of the Dead Sea and the Jordan - Lake Depressions of East Africa - Faults of British Coal- fields - Bounding faults of Scottish Highlands and Lowlands - Fault ...
... Surface - Faults of the Colorado region , and of the Great Basin - Depression of the Dead Sea and the Jordan - Lake Depressions of East Africa - Faults of British Coal- fields - Bounding faults of Scottish Highlands and Lowlands - Fault ...
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... Surface - moraines -Infraglacial smoothing and polishing , crushing , shattering and plucking - Geological action of ... Surface produced by Glacial Action . CHAPTER XII LAND - FORMS MODIFIED BY OLIAN ACTION Insolation and Deflation in ...
... Surface - moraines -Infraglacial smoothing and polishing , crushing , shattering and plucking - Geological action of ... Surface produced by Glacial Action . CHAPTER XII LAND - FORMS MODIFIED BY OLIAN ACTION Insolation and Deflation in ...
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... surface - features , they were at first led to believe that the more striking and prominent of these had come into existence under the operation of forces which had long ago ceased to affect the earth's crust to any marked extent . It ...
... surface - features , they were at first led to believe that the more striking and prominent of these had come into existence under the operation of forces which had long ago ceased to affect the earth's crust to any marked extent . It ...
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... surface had been going on for a long time , and is still in progress . The law of evolution , they have found , holds true for the crust of the globe just as it does for the myriad tribes of plants and animals that clothe and people it ...
... surface had been going on for a long time , and is still in progress . The law of evolution , they have found , holds true for the crust of the globe just as it does for the myriad tribes of plants and animals that clothe and people it ...
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... surface , entering abundantly into the composition of low grounds and mountains alike . Most of these derivatives are sedimentary accumula- tions , and very many are charged with the remains of animals and plants . By noting the order ...
... surface , entering abundantly into the composition of low grounds and mountains alike . Most of these derivatives are sedimentary accumula- tions , and very many are charged with the remains of animals and plants . By noting the order ...
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accumulation Alpine Alps anticlines basalt base-level basins become beds boulder-clay Carboniferous character cirques cliffs coast-lines coasts configuration Cretaceous crust crustal movements crystalline débris denudation deposits depressions depth detritus direction dislocations drainage elevation epigene epigene action epigene agents eroded escarpments feet fiords flow fluvio-glacial fluvio-glacial deposits folds gently geological structure glacial action glacial erosion glaciers gradually ground-moraines hills hollows horizontal strata ice-flow ice-sheet igneous rocks inclined indented infrequently irregular islands joints kind laccoliths lakes land land-forms land-surface lava less limestone low grounds materials mer de glace modified moraines mountain-chain mountain-valleys mountains névé normal faults Old Red Sandstone outcrops owe their origin plain of erosion plateau regions relatively result ridges rock-basins rock-masses sand sandstone schistose schists SECTION sediment slopes Southern Uplands strata streams and rivers superficial surface surface-features synclinal tectonic tend thickness tion tracts traversed underground undulating usually valleys vertical volcanic wind