Word: plateauing
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...been decided by the Trustees of Columbia College to purchase the tract of land on the plateau between Morningside Park and Amsterdam Avenue and the lines of One Hundred and Sixteenth and One Hundred and Twentieth Streets. The trustees have a refusal of the property until May 1, at a price which is satisfactory to them. They have also had submitted to them an offer of the two blocks between One Hundred and Twentieth ond One Hundred and Twenty-second Streets adjoining, which will carry the grounds, if taken, to the turn in Morning-side Avenue which marks the northern...
...slopes for a certain height above the ice are rounded and striated with surprising verisimilitude, indicating the former extent of the glacier. The model of the torrent illustrates the early stages of valley growth, when the little head water branch streams are gnawing backwards with great rapidity into the plateau country above them. Landslides are thus produced, several of them being indicated both in the incipient stages of undercut and semi-detached masses, and later their catas trophic fall. The detritus carried by the torrent is opened out in a broad fan-delta of gentle declivity across the bottom...