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... - ialists , technical terminology should be employed as sparingly as possible , and I have consequently made scant use of those neologisms in which , unfortunately , the recent literature of the subject too much abounds . iii.
... - ialists , technical terminology should be employed as sparingly as possible , and I have consequently made scant use of those neologisms in which , unfortunately , the recent literature of the subject too much abounds . iii.
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James Geikie. the recent literature of the subject too much abounds . Technical words and expressions cannot , however , be entirely dispensed with , but those which my readers will encounter have , as a rule , been long current , and ...
James Geikie. the recent literature of the subject too much abounds . Technical words and expressions cannot , however , be entirely dispensed with , but those which my readers will encounter have , as a rule , been long current , and ...
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... recent times being looked upon as only the final manifestations of those forces which in earlier ages had been mainly instrumental in producing the varied configuration of the land . Mountains and valleys belonged to earth's Sturm und ...
... recent times being looked upon as only the final manifestations of those forces which in earlier ages had been mainly instrumental in producing the varied configuration of the land . Mountains and valleys belonged to earth's Sturm und ...
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... recent age , while those occupying such broad tracts as Brazil , the Canadian uplands , etc. , are of vast antiquity . Crys- talline schistose rocks , with associated granites and other igneous rocks , seem everywhere to underlie the ...
... recent age , while those occupying such broad tracts as Brazil , the Canadian uplands , etc. , are of vast antiquity . Crys- talline schistose rocks , with associated granites and other igneous rocks , seem everywhere to underlie the ...
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James Geikie. or wide belts of low - lying land which within a recent period have been gained from the sea , are all made up of various kinds of sediment arranged in gently in- clined or approximately horizontal layers . Now , over ...
James Geikie. or wide belts of low - lying land which within a recent period have been gained from the sea , are all made up of various kinds of sediment arranged in gently in- clined or approximately horizontal layers . Now , over ...
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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