Earth Features and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader — John Shaqi
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
315. Map of the north polar regions, showing the area of drift
ice and the tracks of the _Jeannette_ and the _Fram_ 288
316. The shelf ice of Coats Land with surrounding pack ice 290
317. Tidewater cliff on a glacier tongue from which icebergs are
born 290
318. A Greenlandic iceberg after a long journey in warm latitudes 291
319. Diagram showing one way in which northern icebergs are born
from the glacier tongue 291
320. A northern iceberg surrounded by sea ice 292
321. Tabular Antarctic iceberg separating from the shelf ice 293
322. Map of the globe, showing the areas covered by continental
glaciers during the “ice age” 297
323. Glaciated granite bowlder weathered out of a moraine of
Permo-Carboniferous age, South Australia 298
324. Map to show the glaciated and nonglaciated regions of North
America 298
325. Map of the glaciated and nonglaciated areas of northern
Europe 299
326. An unstable erosion remnant characteristic of the “driftless
area” 300
327. Diagram showing the manner in which a continental glacier
obliterates existing valleys 301
328. Lake and marsh district in northern Wisconsin 302
329. Cross section in natural proportion of the latest North
American continental glacier 303
330. Diagram showing the earlier and the later glacier records
together upon the same limestone surface 304
331. Map to show the outcroppings of peculiar rock types in the
region of the Great Lakes, and some localities where “drift
copper” has been collected 305
332. Map of the “bowlder train” from Iron Hill, Rhode Island 306
333. Shapes and approximate natural sizes of some of the diamonds
from the Great Lakes region 307
334. Glacial map of a portion of the Great Lakes region 308
335. Section in coarse till 310
336. Sketch map of portions of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana,
showing the distribution of moraines 312
337. Map of the vicinity of Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin, partly
covered by the continental glacier 313
338. Moraine with outwash apron in front 313
339. Fosse between an outwash plain and a moraine 314
340. View along an esker in southern Maine 315
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