Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General ReaderHobbs, William Herbert
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Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader
Hobbs, William Herbert
Geology; Physical geography
138. A pine snapped off by the lava and carried forward upon its
surface 133
139. Lava front pushing over and running around a wall in its
path 134
140. One of the ruined villas in Boscotrecase 134
141. Three diagrams to illustrate the sequence of events during
the cone-building and crater-producing periods 135
142. The spine of Pelé rising above the chimney of the volcano
after the eruption of 1902 136
143. Successive outlines of the Pelé spine 137
144. Corrugated surface of the Vesuvian cone due to the mud flows
which followed the eruption of 1906 138
145. View of the Kammerbühl near Eger in Bohemia 139
146. Volcanic plug exposed by natural dissection of a volcanic
cone in Colorado 140
147. A dike cutting beds of tuff in a partly dissected volcano of
southwestern Colorado 140
148. Map and general view of St. Paul’s rocks, a volcanic cone
dissected by waves 141
149. Dissection by explosion of Little Bandai-san in 1888 141
150. The half-submerged volcano of Krakatoa before and after the
eruption of 1883 142
151. The cicatrice of the Banat 142
152. Diagram to illustrate a probable cause of formation of lava
reservoirs and the connection with volcanoes upon the surface 143
153. Effect of relief of load upon rocks by arching of a
competent formation 144
154. Character profiles connected with volcanoes 146
155. Diagrams to show the effect of decomposition in producing
spheroidal bowlders 150
156. Spheroidal weathering of an igneous rock 151
157. Dome structure in granite mass 152
158. Talus slope beneath a cliff 153
159. Striped ground from soil flow 154
160. Pavement of horizontal surface due to soil flow 154
161. Tree roots prying rock apart on fissure 154
162. Bowlder split by a growing tree 155
163. Rock mantle beneath soil and vegetable mat 155
164. Diagram to show the varying thickness of mantle rock upon
the different portions of a hill surface 156
165. Gullies from earliest stage of a river’s life 160
166. Partially dissected upland 160
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