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...which the 3000 or more feet of dislocations were produced along this great fault line. It was thoroughly demonstrated that after a vertical movement of the rock for about 2000 feet, the irregularity of surface thus produced was almost obliterated through long wearing away by water. Then extensive lava flows were spread over the rock. At a later and relatively recent time movement on the fault line took place again so that the eastern part of these lava flows now stands 1000 feet above the western part, with a formidable cliff separating...
...Geological Conference. Papers: The Effect of Lava Flows on a Drainage System. Professor Shaler. -- Some Examples of Ice-Modified Drainage in New York State. Mr. L. LaForge. Rotch Building...
...Geological Conference. Papers: The Effect of Lava Flows on a Drainage System. Professor Shaler.--Some Examples of Ice-Modified Drainage in New York State. Mr. L. LaForge. Rotch Building...
...State of Oaxaca, in Southern Mexico, and is valuable for its great age and the rarity of the specimens which it includes. These represent gods, masks, and a number of single specimens, as a ceremonial axe, coiled serpent and carved vessel. These are carved from stone and from lava, and in some cases show evidences of an original covering of stucco...
...capable of accommodating 60 men will leave Boston on or about June 26 and return to the same point on or about September 20. The main object of the voyage will be to offer to the members of the excursion party opportunity of studying the volcanic cones and lava-fields, the geysers, ice-caves and glaciers of Iceland, the fiords and glaciers of the west coast of Greenland, and the mountains and fiords of Northern Labrador. Some attention will be paid to the hydrographic condition of the waters traversed. Botanists, zoologists, ornithologists, mineralogists, and those interested in other branches...