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Page 71
... fiords of the Faröes simply occupy the lower reaches of land - valleys , and that the sounds separating the various islands from each other in like manner indicate the sites of long hollows of the character just described . In a word ...
... fiords of the Faröes simply occupy the lower reaches of land - valleys , and that the sounds separating the various islands from each other in like manner indicate the sites of long hollows of the character just described . In a word ...
Page 218
... fiords and valleys . The snows , therefore , accumulate upon a wide and rela- tively flat or undulating surface , not dominated by peaks or ridges . In the central part of a Norwegian snow - field the surface is more or less continuous ...
... fiords and valleys . The snows , therefore , accumulate upon a wide and rela- tively flat or undulating surface , not dominated by peaks or ridges . In the central part of a Norwegian snow - field the surface is more or less continuous ...
Page 219
... fiords . Where the ice - sheet terminates upon land ground - moraines are conspicuous . Nansen , for example , tells us that at Austmannatjern , where he left the inland ice after his famous traverse , enormous accumulations of mo ...
... fiords . Where the ice - sheet terminates upon land ground - moraines are conspicuous . Nansen , for example , tells us that at Austmannatjern , where he left the inland ice after his famous traverse , enormous accumulations of mo ...
Page 233
... fiords it exceeded 5500 feet . Taking the elevation of the ice - shed in Scandinavia as 7000 feet , and the height reached by the ice - front upon the northern slopes of the mountains of Germany as 1350 feet , we get a thickness for the ...
... fiords it exceeded 5500 feet . Taking the elevation of the ice - shed in Scandinavia as 7000 feet , and the height reached by the ice - front upon the northern slopes of the mountains of Germany as 1350 feet , we get a thickness for the ...
Page 280
... fiord - coasts of Norway and Scotland . The crustal deformation may consist of simple subsidence a wide area of relatively flat or gently undulating land sinking below the level of adjacent tracts ; or the subsidence may be the effect ...
... fiord - coasts of Norway and Scotland . The crustal deformation may consist of simple subsidence a wide area of relatively flat or gently undulating land sinking below the level of adjacent tracts ; or the subsidence may be the effect ...
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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