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... Faults of British Coal- fields - Bounding faults of Scottish Highlands and Lowlands — Fault- bounded Mountains - General conclusions . CHAPTER VIII LAND - FORMS DUE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO IGNEOUS ACTION Plutonic and Volcanic Rocks ...
... Faults of British Coal- fields - Bounding faults of Scottish Highlands and Lowlands — Fault- bounded Mountains - General conclusions . CHAPTER VIII LAND - FORMS DUE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO IGNEOUS ACTION Plutonic and Volcanic Rocks ...
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... Fault , or Overthrust 95 xii FIGURE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 31. Reversed Fault 32. Single xi.
... Fault , or Overthrust 95 xii FIGURE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 31. Reversed Fault 32. Single xi.
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... Fault . • 61. Normal Fault , with High Ground on Downthrow Side 62. Normal Fault , with High Ground on Upcast Side . 63. Faults in Queantoweep Valley , Grand Cañon District ( Dutton ) 64. Ranges of the Great Basin ( Hinman , after ...
... Fault . • 61. Normal Fault , with High Ground on Downthrow Side 62. Normal Fault , with High Ground on Upcast Side . 63. Faults in Queantoweep Valley , Grand Cañon District ( Dutton ) 64. Ranges of the Great Basin ( Hinman , after ...
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... Fault , " Newcastle Coal - field 168 69. Section across Great Fault bounding the Highlands near Birnam , Perthshire . • 70. Section across Great Fault bounding the Southern Uplands 71. Diagram Section across Horstgebirge 72 . 73 ...
... Fault , " Newcastle Coal - field 168 69. Section across Great Fault bounding the Highlands near Birnam , Perthshire . • 70. Section across Great Fault bounding the Southern Uplands 71. Diagram Section across Horstgebirge 72 . 73 ...
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... faults , as they are technically termed , along the line of which the rocks have been shifted for , it may be , hundreds and sometimes even for thousands of feet . One of the simplest kind of faults is shown in the preceding ...
... faults , as they are technically termed , along the line of which the rocks have been shifted for , it may be , hundreds and sometimes even for thousands of feet . One of the simplest kind of faults is shown in the preceding ...
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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