A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps (1922) (14750058736)

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Title: A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Leonard
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the ocean winds from reaching the interior ofthe Continent. Western Europe, from the Cantabriansto northern Norway, is in the track of the prevailingwesterlies at all seasons, and therefore has rain at allseasons. The Mediterranean region has rain in winter,foi only at that season is it in the belt of the prevailingwesterlies. Natural Vegetation. In Europe, more than in any other continent, thenatural vegetation has been altered by man, so thatover large areas the type of natural vegetation shown onFig. 51 now only exists in samples. For instance, vastareas of forests have been removed from western andcentral Europe, and extensive tracts of Hungarian andRussian grassland have long since been ploughed, andin modern times produce rich harvests of cultivatedgrasses, e.g. wheat, etc. Ttindra.—Vegetation of this type is found in theextreme north, where the winters are long and severe,the summers short and warm, and the total precipitationis less than ten inches per annum. Here the ground
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JULY over 2 inches ^^~^^^^^^^^ ^^j^—^^^^w ._ Till li;Wi ^A i¥n ;AUF>AJ* Fig. 50.—Europe : Areas where the mean rainfall exceedstwo inches in January and July. 164 EUROPE never thaws below a depth of a foot or so, so that treescannot grow, and the only vegetation consists of mosses,lichens, and small berry-bearing plants and shrubs, suchas crowberries and cranberries, which are found alongsheltered water-courses. Southward extensions of thetundra are found on the Scandinavian highlands and theUral Mountains.

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