Elements of geology - a text-book for colleges and for the general reader (1892) (21068750970)

Title: Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader
Identifier: elementsofgeolog00leco (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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MOUNTAIN SCULPTURE. 271 portion carried away by erosion. It is evident that the drainage of each table is against the cliff; and every cliff, therefore, recedes partly
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Fig. 244.—Bird's-eye View of the Terrace Canon (after Powell). by under-cntting by a river and partly by rain-wash on its face. In some cases, where the lifting of the strata was dome-like, the receding