Earth Sculpture; Or, The Origin of Land-forms |
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... doubt the evidence is sometimes hard to read in all its details , but its general bearing can be readily apprehended . The salient facts , the principal data , are conspicuous enough , and the mode of their interpretation is in a manner ...
... doubt the evidence is sometimes hard to read in all its details , but its general bearing can be readily apprehended . The salient facts , the principal data , are conspicuous enough , and the mode of their interpretation is in a manner ...
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... doubt that the horizontal bedding is original - that the strata were accumulated one above the other in . the same order as we see them . sea . Although such horizontal arrangements are of com- mon enough occurrence , and now and again ...
... doubt that the horizontal bedding is original - that the strata were accumulated one above the other in . the same order as we see them . sea . Although such horizontal arrangements are of com- mon enough occurrence , and now and again ...
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... Although the processes by which rocks become so highly altered are still more or less obscure , yet there can be no doubt that the metamorphism had taken place when the rocks affected were more or less deeply 16 EARTH SCULPTURE.
... Although the processes by which rocks become so highly altered are still more or less obscure , yet there can be no doubt that the metamorphism had taken place when the rocks affected were more or less deeply 16 EARTH SCULPTURE.
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... doubt , for example , that worms , as Darwin has shown , play an important part in the form- ation of soil , which is simply rotted rock plus organic matter . We see , then , that the disintegration and decomposi- tion of rocks is a ...
... doubt , for example , that worms , as Darwin has shown , play an important part in the form- ation of soil , which is simply rotted rock plus organic matter . We see , then , that the disintegration and decomposi- tion of rocks is a ...
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... doubt , played a part , but those just referred to must be credited with the chief share in the work of erosion . Such is the general conclusion to which we are led by the study of causes now in action . And observation and reflection ...
... doubt , played a part , but those just referred to must be credited with the chief share in the work of erosion . Such is the general conclusion to which we are led by the study of causes now in action . And observation and reflection ...
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accumulation Alps anticlines basalt base-level basins become beds Carboniferous character cliffs coast-lines cones configuration Cretaceous crust crustal movements crystalline débris denudation deposits depressions depth detritus direction dislocations drainage elevation epigene action epigene agents eroded escarpments eventually feet fiords flexures flow fluvio-glacial deposits folds fracture gently geological structure glacial action glaciers gradually granite ground-moraines Highlands hills hollows horizontal strata ice-sheet igneous rocks inclined indented infrequently irregular islands joints Jura Mountains laccoliths lakes land land-forms land-surface lava less limestone low grounds masses materials Mesozoic modified moraines mountain-chain mountain-valleys mountains normal faults North Old Red Sandstone outcrops owe their origin Permian plain of erosion plateau regions relatively result ridges rock-basins rock-masses sand sandstones schistose schists Section sediment shales Silurian slopes Southern Uplands strata streams and rivers superficial surface surface-features synclinal tectonic tend thickness tion tracts traversed underground undulating usually valleys vertical volcanic