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... Mountain - valleys , Lowlands , and Plateaux - Ice - barrier Basins- Submarine Basins of Glacial Origin . 278 CHAPTER XV COAST - LINES Form and general trend of CONTENTS ix.
... Mountain - valleys , Lowlands , and Plateaux - Ice - barrier Basins- Submarine Basins of Glacial Origin . 278 CHAPTER XV COAST - LINES Form and general trend of CONTENTS ix.
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James Geikie. ure and underground structure can be traced . The mountain ridges do not correspond to great swellings of the crust ; the valleys ... mountains are built up of rocks which are not convoluted at all , but arranged in horizontal ...
James Geikie. ure and underground structure can be traced . The mountain ridges do not correspond to great swellings of the crust ; the valleys ... mountains are built up of rocks which are not convoluted at all , but arranged in horizontal ...
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... valleys generally that we may expect to find the most cogent evidence of ... mountain - regions than it can be removed by run- ning water . Indeed , over ... valleys or come to rest in lakes and inland seas . Hitherto we have been ...
... valleys generally that we may expect to find the most cogent evidence of ... mountain - regions than it can be removed by run- ning water . Indeed , over ... valleys or come to rest in lakes and inland seas . Hitherto we have been ...
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... valleys are not seldom older than the mountain - ridges which they sometimes traverse ; or , to put it in another way , new mountains may come into existence without deflecting the rivers across whose valleys they may seem at one time ...
... valleys are not seldom older than the mountain - ridges which they sometimes traverse ; or , to put it in another way , new mountains may come into existence without deflecting the rivers across whose valleys they may seem at one time ...
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... mountain . Occasionally the neck between two valleys running in opposite directions is so low and flat that it is with difficulty that the actual water - parting can be fixed . In such cases we have a well - defined hollow , bounded by ...
... mountain . Occasionally the neck between two valleys running in opposite directions is so low and flat that it is with difficulty that the actual water - parting can be fixed . In such cases we have a well - defined hollow , bounded by ...
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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