The Evolution of Earth Structure with a Theory of Geomorphic Changes: By T. Mellard ReadeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 342 páginas |
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... 304-317 CHAPTER XXIV PLEISTOCENE RAISED BEACHES AND SUBMERGED FORESTS 318-321 CHAPTER XXV CLOSING REMARKS 322-324 RECENT NOTES . 325-328 INDEX 329-342 PLATES PLATE I. DIAGRAM OF THE EARTH , TO ILLUSTRATE xii EVOLUTION OF EARTH STRUCTURE.
... 304-317 CHAPTER XXIV PLEISTOCENE RAISED BEACHES AND SUBMERGED FORESTS 318-321 CHAPTER XXV CLOSING REMARKS 322-324 RECENT NOTES . 325-328 INDEX 329-342 PLATES PLATE I. DIAGRAM OF THE EARTH , TO ILLUSTRATE xii EVOLUTION OF EARTH STRUCTURE.
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... Pleistocene , the rocks had undergone so many vicissitudes and movements since they were laid down on the shores or beds of the sea that it was difficult , if not impossible , to tell whether the last movement had been one of elevation ...
... Pleistocene , the rocks had undergone so many vicissitudes and movements since they were laid down on the shores or beds of the sea that it was difficult , if not impossible , to tell whether the last movement had been one of elevation ...
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... Pleistocene beaches , it is difficult to resist the conviction that the terraces have been formed by the sea.3 Evidences of former submersion have vol . xiv . , Nov. 1894 ( further references given on p . 295 of this last paper ) . 1 ...
... Pleistocene beaches , it is difficult to resist the conviction that the terraces have been formed by the sea.3 Evidences of former submersion have vol . xiv . , Nov. 1894 ( further references given on p . 295 of this last paper ) . 1 ...
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... Pleistocene times , at a much greater elevation in relation to the sea than at present . Still further , Dr. Spencer has brought forward evidence of the existence of an Antillean continent in Pleistocene times which involves movements ...
... Pleistocene times , at a much greater elevation in relation to the sea than at present . Still further , Dr. Spencer has brought forward evidence of the existence of an Antillean continent in Pleistocene times which involves movements ...
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... Pleistocene times have exceeded by twenty times the mass of sediment contemporaneously denuded from the land and laid down in the sea . Many thinkers , from an early period in the study of geology , seeing that while one portion of the ...
... Pleistocene times have exceeded by twenty times the mass of sediment contemporaneously denuded from the land and laid down in the sea . Many thinkers , from an early period in the study of geology , seeing that while one portion of the ...
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