The Story of the Hills: A Book about Mountains for General ReadersMacmillan and Company, 1892 - 357 страница |
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... folded in a most marvellous manner . Solid sheets of limestone may be seen , as it were , to writhe from the base to the summit of a mountain ; yet they present everywhere their truncated ends to the air , and from their incompleteness ...
... folded in a most marvellous manner . Solid sheets of limestone may be seen , as it were , to writhe from the base to the summit of a mountain ; yet they present everywhere their truncated ends to the air , and from their incompleteness ...
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... folded and twisted , the rocks of mountains frequently ex- hibit clear signs of having been split and cracked . The fractures are of all sizes , from an inch or more up to hundreds or even thou- sands of feet . They tell us plainly that ...
... folded and twisted , the rocks of mountains frequently ex- hibit clear signs of having been split and cracked . The fractures are of all sizes , from an inch or more up to hundreds or even thou- sands of feet . They tell us plainly that ...
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... fold their rocks in some places into stupen- dous folds , such as we now find form part of the general structure of mountains ; and that in so doing they caused fearful strains , too great for the rocks to bear , so that they split over ...
... fold their rocks in some places into stupen- dous folds , such as we now find form part of the general structure of mountains ; and that in so doing they caused fearful strains , too great for the rocks to bear , so that they split over ...
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... itself into a series of folds , or wrinkles , like those on the skin of a dried apple . Many think that mountain - ranges may be explained in this way . CHAPTER VII . HOW THE MOUNTAINS WERE CARVED OUT . 204 The Story of the Hills .
... itself into a series of folds , or wrinkles , like those on the skin of a dried apple . Many think that mountain - ranges may be explained in this way . CHAPTER VII . HOW THE MOUNTAINS WERE CARVED OUT . 204 The Story of the Hills .
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... folded , crumpled , twisted , and fractured by great " faults , " we find a very different result . In these cases the rocks have generally been very much altered by the action of heat . For here we find crystalline schists , gneiss ...
... folded , crumpled , twisted , and fractured by great " faults , " we find a very different result . In these cases the rocks have generally been very much altered by the action of heat . For here we find crystalline schists , gneiss ...
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