Word: headlands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Moselle, like the Seine, meanders through a flat upland. The Moselle offers a good example of a river cutting itself off by drilling through a narrow headland. Its tributaries have eaten their way back and have drawn into the Moselle waters which formerly flowed into the Meuse...
...Department of Geology is preparing to send a party to Gay's Head, Martha's Vineyard, during the April recess, to examine the formation of the cliffs on that headland. The clay and sand strata of this section abound in fossil bones of the order of Cetaceans, to which the whale and the walrus belong. There are also leaf-beds of a representative of the order to which the gigantic red-woods of California belong...