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
452. Diagrammatic section to illustrate the formation of
saucer-like basins between the levees of streams on a flood
plain 415
453. Saucer lakes upon the bed of the former river Warren 416
454. Levee lakes developed in series within meanders in a delta
plain 417
455. Raft lakes along the banks of the Red River in Arkansas and
Louisiana 418
456. Map of the Swiss lakes Thun and Brienz 419
457. Delta lakes formed at the mouth of the Mississippi 419
458. Delta lakes at the margin of the Nile delta 420
459. Diagrams to illustrate the characteristics of barrier lakes 420
460. Dune lakes on the coast of France 421
461. Sink lakes in Florida, with a schematic diagram to
illustrate the manner of their formation 421
462. Map of the Arve and the Upper Rhone 426
463. View of the Arve and the Rhone at their junction 427
464. A village in Switzerland built upon a strath at the head of
Lake Poschiavo 428
465. View of the floating bog and surrounding zones of vegetation
in a small glacial lake 429
466. Diagram to show how small lakes are transformed into peat
bogs 430
467. Map to show the anomalous position of the delta in Lake St.
Clair 431
468. A bowlder wall upon the shore of a small lake 432
469. Diagrams to show the effect of ice shove in producing ice
ramparts upon the shores of lakes 433
470. Various forms of ice ramparts 433
471. Map of Lake Mendota, showing the position of the ridge which
forms from ice expansion and the ice ramparts upon the shores 434
472. The great multiple mountain arc of Sewestan, British India 436
473. Diagrams to illustrate the theories of origin of mountain
arcs 437
474. Festoons of mountain arcs about the borders of the Pacific
Ocean 438
475. The interrupted Armorican Mountains common to western Europe
and eastern North America 438
476. A zone of diverse displacement in the western United States 439
477. Section of an East African block mountain 439
478. Tilted crust blocks in the Queantoweap valley 440
479. View of the laccolite of the Carriso Mountain 441
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