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... rising may be decreasing in height 138 Aerial denudation and deposit . 143 CHAPTER X. LYELL ON NEW RAVINES , AND ON THE GANGES . Formation of new ravines 147 ' Sunk roads ' the effect of aqueous denudation 148 Lyell on the Ganges 151 ...
... rising may be decreasing in height 138 Aerial denudation and deposit . 143 CHAPTER X. LYELL ON NEW RAVINES , AND ON THE GANGES . Formation of new ravines 147 ' Sunk roads ' the effect of aqueous denudation 148 Lyell on the Ganges 151 ...
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... rise of the land , notwithstanding that , owing to a cause which will be explained , their starting - point might have been denuded some feet lower , not than their beds , but than the heights through which 42 DENUDATION OF WEALD RUNS ...
... rise of the land , notwithstanding that , owing to a cause which will be explained , their starting - point might have been denuded some feet lower , not than their beds , but than the heights through which 42 DENUDATION OF WEALD RUNS ...
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... rising for the space of about 1000 miles . These beaches are found 600 feet above the sea . The present rate of rising is thought to be four feet in a century . If this had caused ' fissures ' or ' cross fractures , ' ' cross fractures ...
... rising for the space of about 1000 miles . These beaches are found 600 feet above the sea . The present rate of rising is thought to be four feet in a century . If this had caused ' fissures ' or ' cross fractures , ' ' cross fractures ...
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... rise of four feet in a century would in no way dis- arrange the drainage of the country . And it has required all the sagacity of the greatest philoso- phers to ascertain that this vast operation has taken place , and is still ...
... rise of four feet in a century would in no way dis- arrange the drainage of the country . And it has required all the sagacity of the greatest philoso- phers to ascertain that this vast operation has taken place , and is still ...
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... enumerated , but with every valley in the wide wide world . And hence the materials which fill arms of the sea , and form alluvial plains and deltas , unless the land is rising , or alongshore 56 DEN UDATION OF WEALD RUNS [ CH . III .
... enumerated , but with every valley in the wide wide world . And hence the materials which fill arms of the sea , and form alluvial plains and deltas , unless the land is rising , or alongshore 56 DEN UDATION OF WEALD RUNS [ CH . III .
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