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... Surface - Faults of the Colorado region , and of the Great Basin - Depression of the Dead Sea and the Jordan - Lake Depressions of East Africa - Faults of British Coal- fields - Bounding faults of Scottish Highlands and Lowlands — Fault ...
... Surface - Faults of the Colorado region , and of the Great Basin - Depression of the Dead Sea and the Jordan - Lake Depressions of East Africa - Faults of British Coal- fields - Bounding faults of Scottish Highlands and Lowlands — Fault ...
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... Surface - moraines -Infraglacial smoothing and polishing , crushing , shattering and plucking - Geological action of ... Surface produced by Glacial Action . CHAPTER XII LAND - FORMS MODIFIED BY OLIAN ACTION Insolation and Deflation in ...
... Surface - moraines -Infraglacial smoothing and polishing , crushing , shattering and plucking - Geological action of ... Surface produced by Glacial Action . CHAPTER XII LAND - FORMS MODIFIED BY OLIAN ACTION Insolation and Deflation in ...
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... surface- Subordinate Influence of Marine Erosion . CHAPTER XVI CLASSIFICATION OF LAND - FORMS PAGE 315 . 335 Plains of Accumulation and of Erosion - Plateaux of Accumulation and Erosion - Hills and Mountains : Original or Tectonic , and ...
... surface- Subordinate Influence of Marine Erosion . CHAPTER XVI CLASSIFICATION OF LAND - FORMS PAGE 315 . 335 Plains of Accumulation and of Erosion - Plateaux of Accumulation and Erosion - Hills and Mountains : Original or Tectonic , and ...
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... surface - features , they were at first led to believe that the more striking and prominent of these had come into existence under the operation of forces which had long ago ceased to affect the earth's crust to any marked extent . It ...
... surface - features , they were at first led to believe that the more striking and prominent of these had come into existence under the operation of forces which had long ago ceased to affect the earth's crust to any marked extent . It ...
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... surface had been going on for a long time , and is still in progress . The law of evolution , they have found , holds true for the crust of the globe just as it does for the myriad tribes of plants and animals that clothe and people it ...
... surface had been going on for a long time , and is still in progress . The law of evolution , they have found , holds true for the crust of the globe just as it does for the myriad tribes of plants and animals that clothe and people it ...
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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