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... patches of alluvial plain anywhere And these patches progress backward , or up the valley . 218 The practical man's monstrous theory of the formation of the delta . 221 If this theory were true , the river once embanked would be always ...
... patches of alluvial plain anywhere And these patches progress backward , or up the valley . 218 The practical man's monstrous theory of the formation of the delta . 221 If this theory were true , the river once embanked would be always ...
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... patches of alluvial plains . ' Years ago ( Rain and Rivers , ' page 4 of this edition ) , I described at length the birth , life , and death of these transitory alluvial plains . But I was not till now aware of their disposition to set ...
... patches of alluvial plains . ' Years ago ( Rain and Rivers , ' page 4 of this edition ) , I described at length the birth , life , and death of these transitory alluvial plains . But I was not till now aware of their disposition to set ...
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... patch . The barrier sinks from erosion . The alluvial patch is no longer overflowed . The river is confined between walls of its own building . It sets to work to tear them down . It carries off the alluvial patch which it had deposited ...
... patch . The barrier sinks from erosion . The alluvial patch is no longer overflowed . The river is confined between walls of its own building . It sets to work to tear them down . It carries off the alluvial patch which it had deposited ...
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... patch of alluvial plain still left . That no writer should have mentioned the multiplicity of these terraces , is to me wholly unaccountable . For it is the open ... patches are very general affairs CH . II . ] 15 AND LAKES OF AUVERGNE .
... patch of alluvial plain still left . That no writer should have mentioned the multiplicity of these terraces , is to me wholly unaccountable . For it is the open ... patches are very general affairs CH . II . ] 15 AND LAKES OF AUVERGNE .
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George Greenwood. Lake of Au- vergne first patches are very general affairs , and that indica- tions of them , more or less clear , will be found in all river valleys which have rapids or gorges . ' Any one may make ' parallel terraces ...
George Greenwood. Lake of Au- vergne first patches are very general affairs , and that indica- tions of them , more or less clear , will be found in all river valleys which have rapids or gorges . ' Any one may make ' parallel terraces ...
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