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... Rivers - Rate of Denudation - Denudation and Sedimentation go hand in hand . CHAPTER III LAND - FORMS IN REGIONS OF HORIZONTAL STRATA Various factors determining Earth Sculpture - Influence of Geo- logical Structure and the Character of ...
... Rivers - Rate of Denudation - Denudation and Sedimentation go hand in hand . CHAPTER III LAND - FORMS IN REGIONS OF HORIZONTAL STRATA Various factors determining Earth Sculpture - Influence of Geo- logical Structure and the Character of ...
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... River - valley . . 15. Enlarged section of a portion of the Island shown in Fig . 12 16. Diagram Map of Plateau of Erosion Section across reduced Plateau of Erosion Longitudinal Section of River Course 19. Section of Escarpments and ...
... River - valley . . 15. Enlarged section of a portion of the Island shown in Fig . 12 16. Diagram Map of Plateau of Erosion Section across reduced Plateau of Erosion Longitudinal Section of River Course 19. Section of Escarpments and ...
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... rivers , lakes , and seas . Another common rock of aqueous origin is limestone , of which there are count- less varieties - some formed in lakes , like the shell- marls of our own day ; others representing the calcareous ooze and coral ...
... rivers , lakes , and seas . Another common rock of aqueous origin is limestone , of which there are count- less varieties - some formed in lakes , like the shell- marls of our own day ; others representing the calcareous ooze and coral ...
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... river- valleys , the broad plains that occupy the sites of silted- up lakes , the extensive deltas of such rivers as the Nile , the Po , the Amazon , the Mississippi , the narrow or wide belts of low - lying land which within INTRODUCTORY ...
... river- valleys , the broad plains that occupy the sites of silted- up lakes , the extensive deltas of such rivers as the Nile , the Po , the Amazon , the Mississippi , the narrow or wide belts of low - lying land which within INTRODUCTORY ...
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... rivers flow across dislocations by which the strata have been shifted up or down for thousands of yards , and in some places we may sit upon rocks which are geologically more than a thousand fathoms below or above those on which we rest ...
... rivers flow across dislocations by which the strata have been shifted up or down for thousands of yards , and in some places we may sit upon rocks which are geologically more than a thousand fathoms below or above those on which we rest ...
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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