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Page 219
... ice - walls of the plateau - sheets . Every- where , also , from the margin of these sheets , as from the valley - glaciers , flow streams and torrents of turbid water . The phenomena exhibited by the Scandinavian ice- fields are ...
... ice - walls of the plateau - sheets . Every- where , also , from the margin of these sheets , as from the valley - glaciers , flow streams and torrents of turbid water . The phenomena exhibited by the Scandinavian ice- fields are ...
Page 231
... ice - sheets of Norway carry no superficial detritus , and their ground - moraines are , therefore , supposed by some to represent the rock - rubbish which gathered over the Scandinavian heights in preglacial times ! A vast ice - sheet ...
... ice - sheets of Norway carry no superficial detritus , and their ground - moraines are , therefore , supposed by some to represent the rock - rubbish which gathered over the Scandinavian heights in preglacial times ! A vast ice - sheet ...
Page 232
... ice - sheet covered all Northern and North - western Europe , extending east from the British area to the Timan mountains , and south to the German ranges . The ice - sheet thus occupied an area of 2,500,000 square miles or thereabout ...
... ice - sheet covered all Northern and North - western Europe , extending east from the British area to the Timan mountains , and south to the German ranges . The ice - sheet thus occupied an area of 2,500,000 square miles or thereabout ...
Page 233
... ice - sheet in South Sweden of 2900 feet , of 2500 feet in Denmark , and of 1300 feet or thereabout in the neighbourhood of Berlin . It is obviously impossible that the ground - moraines of an ice - sheet of such dimensions could have ...
... ice - sheet in South Sweden of 2900 feet , of 2500 feet in Denmark , and of 1300 feet or thereabout in the neighbourhood of Berlin . It is obviously impossible that the ground - moraines of an ice - sheet of such dimensions could have ...
Page 235
... ice - sheet rock - grinding and rock - shatter- ing were carried on side by side . No doubt the boulder - clays frequently rest upon a smoothed and drumlins of South Galloway appear to owe their origin to glacial erosion . They are the ...
... ice - sheet rock - grinding and rock - shatter- ing were carried on side by side . No doubt the boulder - clays frequently rest upon a smoothed and drumlins of South Galloway appear to owe their origin to glacial erosion . They are the ...
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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