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" McCormick ridge rises to a height of about 100 feet above the floor of the basin with a narrow, rounded, almost crested top in places and with side slopes of 30° to 40°. In the half mile or more of its extent the ridge has a serpentine course. Similar... "
United States Congressional Serial Set - Page 67
1911
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First Forms of Vegetation

Hugh Macmillan - Botany - 1874 - 464 pages
...tribes in Europe and America, and the more clearly we understand the phenomena which took place on the melting of the ice at the close of the glacial period, and map out the limits of ancient glacial action all "/ over the world, the more confirmed, I believe,...
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The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of ...

Thomas Belt - Natural history - 1874 - 452 pages
...greatly increased in extent by the lowering of the ocean ; and the overwhelming of this low land, on the melting of the ice at the close of the glacial period, may be that great catastrophe that is recorded on both sides of the Atlantic, but is more clearly remembered...
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History of Ohio: From the Glacial Period to the Present Time

James Patterson Lawyer - Ohio - 1904 - 510 pages
...steep rocky cliffs, resembling very much the walls of the Susquehanna in the mountains of Pennsylvania. The melting of the ice at the close of the glacial period formed large volumes of running water in the summer seasons. The rivers, rising in the glaciated area...
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Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World: A Work of Reclamation and ..., Volume 2

Gerald Massey - Egypt - 1907 - 416 pages
...flood that swept the plains of Mesopotamia ; nor in any vast cataclysm that might have been caused by the melting of the ice at the close of the glacial period (Huxley, Nineteenth Century, 1890, pp. 14-15). We find by the Egyptian wisdom that "the deluge," as...
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The Geographical Journal, Volume 32

Geography - 1908 - 750 pages
...alone. If we take the alternative to solution, ie erosion of the chalk by means of torrents due to the melting of the ice at the close of the glacial period, it seems to me that you have not got anything like sufficient gathering ground for the snowfields (or...
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Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey

Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1911 - 608 pages
...The form and topography of these ridges and the vicinity and the little that could be seen of then- geology indicate pretty clearly that during the melting...by the ice masses, the drainage from the mountains hi the rear found its way out to Ninemile Creek through subglacial tunnels or open ice-walled canyon-like...
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Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World

Gerald Massey - History - 2007 - 682 pages
...flood that swept the plains of Mesopotamia; nor in any vast cataclysm that might have been caused by the melting of the ice at the close of the glacial period (Huxley, Nineteenth Century, 1890, pp. 14-15). We find by the Egyptian wisdom that "the deluge," as...
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