Rain and Rivers, Or, Hutton and Playfair Against Lyell and All ComersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 237 páginas |
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... once rose on the Weald hill 67 The waterslope of the Arun is still robbing the water- slope of the Itchen . • Romney and Hythe once cinque ports • · They now bear sheep not ships 5889 67 68 69 CHAPTER IV . THE ST . LAWRENCE WILL RUN ...
... once rose on the Weald hill 67 The waterslope of the Arun is still robbing the water- slope of the Itchen . • Romney and Hythe once cinque ports • · They now bear sheep not ships 5889 67 68 69 CHAPTER IV . THE ST . LAWRENCE WILL RUN ...
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... once embanked would be always embanked 224 But eternal causes necessitate an eternal raising of the embankments 225 Principle of the longitudinal and lateral slopes of allu- vial plains 227 • The bed of the river rises with the alluvial ...
... once embanked would be always embanked 224 But eternal causes necessitate an eternal raising of the embankments 225 Principle of the longitudinal and lateral slopes of allu- vial plains 227 • The bed of the river rises with the alluvial ...
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George Greenwood. the edges of one or more sheets of water , which once stood at the level , first of the highest shelf , and successively at the height of the two others . It is well known that , wherever a lake or fiord exists ...
George Greenwood. the edges of one or more sheets of water , which once stood at the level , first of the highest shelf , and successively at the height of the two others . It is well known that , wherever a lake or fiord exists ...
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... once sane Lyell has gone into all the insanities of glacialism ; and he now requires ' ice - dams , ' to turn the water back the wrong way , over the water - partings or so called cols ! And since that time I have had the pleasure on ...
... once sane Lyell has gone into all the insanities of glacialism ; and he now requires ' ice - dams , ' to turn the water back the wrong way , over the water - partings or so called cols ! And since that time I have had the pleasure on ...
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... ONCE ROSE ON THE WEALD HILL . THE WATER SLOPE OF THE ARUN IS STILL ROBBING THE WATERSLOPE OF THE ITCHEN . ROMNEY AND HYTHE ONCE CINQUE PORTS . THEY NOW BEAR SHEEP NOT SHIPS . his own To denude the Weald , Lyell uses submarine theory ...
... ONCE ROSE ON THE WEALD HILL . THE WATER SLOPE OF THE ARUN IS STILL ROBBING THE WATERSLOPE OF THE ITCHEN . ROMNEY AND HYTHE ONCE CINQUE PORTS . THEY NOW BEAR SHEEP NOT SHIPS . his own To denude the Weald , Lyell uses submarine theory ...
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