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... banks , their sides would not slope but must be cliffs , with inter- • 8888 81 82 83 vening table land 87 Rivers may cut deep channels , rain makes wide valleys 88 Flat land may be denuded 89 Water may run without a slope of land 89 ...
... banks , their sides would not slope but must be cliffs , with inter- • 8888 81 82 83 vening table land 87 Rivers may cut deep channels , rain makes wide valleys 88 Flat land may be denuded 89 Water may run without a slope of land 89 ...
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... banks by rivers , the erosion theory ; and No. 4 , the subaerial denu- dation from disintegration and the wash of rain , the subaerial theory . All these four theories Lyell uses , sometimes each as if it was his only theory , and ...
... banks by rivers , the erosion theory ; and No. 4 , the subaerial denu- dation from disintegration and the wash of rain , the subaerial theory . All these four theories Lyell uses , sometimes each as if it was his only theory , and ...
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... banks by rivers , in all these cases valleys ought to be more bare of soil than any other parts of the earth . But they are more rich in soil than any other parts of the earth . be bare of soil , Valleys are rich in soil . Soil is ...
... banks by rivers , in all these cases valleys ought to be more bare of soil than any other parts of the earth . But they are more rich in soil than any other parts of the earth . be bare of soil , Valleys are rich in soil . Soil is ...
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... bank ; and the excavation has disclosed in one spot a wall of columnar basalt about fifty feet high . The excavation of the ravine is still in progress , every winter some columns of basalt being undermined and carried down the channel ...
... bank ; and the excavation has disclosed in one spot a wall of columnar basalt about fifty feet high . The excavation of the ravine is still in progress , every winter some columns of basalt being undermined and carried down the channel ...
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... banks of the Seine in Normandy , which Lyell considers as remnants from the surrounding denudation of the sea , exist only , because being harder than the neighbouring chalk , they have yielded more slowly to atmospheric disintegration ...
... banks of the Seine in Normandy , which Lyell considers as remnants from the surrounding denudation of the sea , exist only , because being harder than the neighbouring chalk , they have yielded more slowly to atmospheric disintegration ...
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