Rain and Rivers, Or, Hutton and Playfair Against Lyell and All ComersLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 237 páginas |
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... travels to the sea . And the same cause which has excavated valleys , and which still denudes them - rain - also deposits in them . And valleys always hold soil as rivers always hold water , though the soil and the water are both in ...
... travels to the sea . And the same cause which has excavated valleys , and which still denudes them - rain - also deposits in them . And valleys always hold soil as rivers always hold water , though the soil and the water are both in ...
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... travel eastward with the tide , and in all the beaches which I examined from Weymouth to Dover I found a mixture of pebbles of all strata from granite and trap up to flint . As a general rule the great proportion of pebbles on a sea ...
... travel eastward with the tide , and in all the beaches which I examined from Weymouth to Dover I found a mixture of pebbles of all strata from granite and trap up to flint . As a general rule the great proportion of pebbles on a sea ...
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... travels along the shore with the wind or at least with the wave . On all large beaches of shingle two or three terraces may in general be seen , owing to the movement of beach at the different high water marks at spring and neap tides ...
... travels along the shore with the wind or at least with the wave . On all large beaches of shingle two or three terraces may in general be seen , owing to the movement of beach at the different high water marks at spring and neap tides ...
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... travel most quickly to leeward , and between all groins this diminishing of the pebbles from the leeward groin to the windward groin may be seen . Now , as the oblique wave travels along shore , but returns straight , there must be a ...
... travel most quickly to leeward , and between all groins this diminishing of the pebbles from the leeward groin to the windward groin may be seen . Now , as the oblique wave travels along shore , but returns straight , there must be a ...
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... travel there , but because they cannot stop there . A boulder lifted there travels with the wave almost as freely as the water which composes the wave . Boulders can no more accumulate where the water is deep and the cliff steep than ...
... travel there , but because they cannot stop there . A boulder lifted there travels with the wave almost as freely as the water which composes the wave . Boulders can no more accumulate where the water is deep and the cliff steep than ...
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