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
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work is now out of print, but both a revised edition and an English
translation are promised for 1912.)
SIEGFRIED PASSARGE. Die Kalihari. Berlin, 1904, pp. 662.
W. M. DAVIS. The Geographic Cycle in an Arid Climate, Jour. Geol.,
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The self-registering gauge of past climates:—
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The red and brown desert varnish:—
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Erosion in the desert:—
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The dust carried out of the desert:—
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Dunes:—
VAUGHAN CORNISH. On the Formation of Sand-dunes, Geogr. Jour., vol. 9,
1897, pp. 278-309 (a most important paper).
F. SOLGER and Others. Dünenbuch. Enke, Stuttgart, 1910, pp. 373.
The zone of the dwindling river:—
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