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... Basins - Dunes of the Desert- Sand - hills of other regions - Transport and Accumulation of Dust— Loess , a dust ... Rock - shelters -Sea - caves . 250 266 CHAPTER XIV BASINS . Basins due to Crustal Deformation - Crater - lakes ...
... Basins - Dunes of the Desert- Sand - hills of other regions - Transport and Accumulation of Dust— Loess , a dust ... Rock - shelters -Sea - caves . 250 266 CHAPTER XIV BASINS . Basins due to Crustal Deformation - Crater - lakes ...
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... Rock ( after G. K. Gilbert ) View of Necks - Cores of old Volcanoes ( Powell ) • 169 170 170 175 · 176 . 177 188 ... basins on a true scale 293 86. Sea - cliff cut in Horizontal Strata 319 88 . 87. Sea - cliff cut in Strata dipping ...
... Rock ( after G. K. Gilbert ) View of Necks - Cores of old Volcanoes ( Powell ) • 169 170 170 175 · 176 . 177 188 ... basins on a true scale 293 86. Sea - cliff cut in Horizontal Strata 319 88 . 87. Sea - cliff cut in Strata dipping ...
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... rock - basins of particular kinds have been formed . 1. The geological action of existing glaciers . - The most obvious work performed by an Alpine glacier is that of transport and accumulation . The wreck of the adjacent mountains ...
... rock - basins of particular kinds have been formed . 1. The geological action of existing glaciers . - The most obvious work performed by an Alpine glacier is that of transport and accumulation . The wreck of the adjacent mountains ...
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... rock - frag- ments from above . And if this be the case with the relatively small glaciers of the Alps , it must be ... basins that snows accumulate to form the reservoirs from which glaciers flow . Even at its very source , therefore ...
... rock - frag- ments from above . And if this be the case with the relatively small glaciers of the Alps , it must be ... basins that snows accumulate to form the reservoirs from which glaciers flow . Even at its very source , therefore ...
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... rock - terraces . One of these is well glaciated , showing roches mou- tonnées with conspicuous Stoss and Lee - Seiten . Be- tween the mammillated rocks stretch several shallow rock - basins , some of them being filled with water . One ...
... rock - terraces . One of these is well glaciated , showing roches mou- tonnées with conspicuous Stoss and Lee - Seiten . Be- tween the mammillated rocks stretch several shallow rock - basins , some of them being filled with water . One ...
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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