 ... across their channel, must have given birth to a lake by their stagnation ; and would probably have ended, as in the other instance, by wearing away a passage parallel to their former one, had not the hill forming their western bank, not in this instance...  The Geology and Extinct Volcanos of Central France - Seite 61von George Poulett Scrope - 1858 - 258 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 Seiten
...forming their western bank, not in this instance composed of granite, but of a soft alluvial tufa, yielded, at some distance up the stream, to the excessive...stream, about three miles above their former confluence. The changes thus effected do not only present themselves to the eye of a nice observer, but are exhibited... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 Seiten
...forming their western bank, not in this instance composed of granite, but of a soft alluvial tufa, yielded, at some distance up the stream, to the excessive...pressure of the dammed-up waters. An immense excavation, stillsubsisting, was broken across this hill — through which the lake emptied itself into the bed... | |
 | 1831 - 436 Seiten
...distance up the stream, to the excessive pressure of the dammed up waters. An immense excavation j still subsisting, was broken across this hill, through...Monges at no great distance, and through which the Siotile still joins this latter stream, about three miles above their former confluence." Now, that... | |
 | 1831 - 428 Seiten
...forming their western bank, not in this instance composed of granite, but of a soft alluvial tufa, yielded, at some distance up the stream, to the excessive pressure of the dammed up waters. An immense excavation, still subsisting, was broken across this hill, through which... | |
 | 1831 - 454 Seiten
...forming their western bank, not in this instance composed of granite, but of a soft alluvial tufa* yielded, at some distance up the stream, to the excessive pressure of the dammed up waters. An immense excavation, still subsisting, was broken across this hill, through which... | |
 | 1827 - 630 Seiten
...forming their western bank, not in this instance composed of granite, but of a soft alluvial tufa, yielded, at some distance up the stream, to the excessive...pressure of the dammed-up waters. An immense excavation, stillsubsisting, was broken across this hill — through which the lake emptied itself into the bed... | |
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