The Physical Geology and Geography of Great BritainE. Stanford, 1872 - 349 pages |
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Alps anticlinal anticlinal curve beds bones Boulder-clay Britain Carboniferous Limestone Carboniferous rocks caverns caves Chalk chiefly clay cliffs coal coal-fields Coal-measures coast consist contain contorted covered Cretaceous Cumberland Demy denudation deposited Derbyshire detritus disturbed drift east England Eocene Eocene strata epoch escarpment estuary feet flints flow formations formed fossils freshwater geological geologists glacial glaciers gneiss gneissic rocks granite gravel Greensand Highlands hills igneous rocks inches islands Isle lakes Lammermuir hills land Lias lime Lower Greensand Lower Silurian mammalia marine mass metamorphic Millstone Grit Miocene moraines mountains North Wales Old Red Sandstone Oolitic origin Palæozoic partly period Permian plain present Reading beds Red Marl regions rise rivers running sand scenery scooped Scotland Severn shales shells Silurian Silurian rocks Silurian strata slopes sometimes species stones strata stratified surface synclinal table-land Thames thick unconformably Upper Vale valley waste Weald Wealden whole Yorkshire
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