 | William Barton Rogers - 1884 - 878 pages
...a crystalline texture. Sugar candy and calcareous spar are erystallized. Debacle. — A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposing barriers,...fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Delta. — When a great river, before it enters the sea, divides into separate streams, they often... | |
 | Albert Hill Fay - 1920 - 770 pages
...less than в feet long (Standard) Dean (Corn.). The end ot a level, (Raymond) Debacle. 1. A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposing barriers,...fragments of rocks, and spreads them In Its course. (Comstock) 2. The breaking up of Ice In a stream. A violent dispersion or disruption. (Webster) De... | |
 | 1920 - 1572 pages
...less than 6 feet long. (Standard) Dean (Corn.). The end of a level. (Raymond) Debacle. 1. A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposing barriers,...fragments of rocks, and spreads them In Its course. (Comstock) 2. The breaking up of Ice In a stream. A violent dispersion or disruption. (Webster) De... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Mines - 1920 - 778 pages
...less than 6 feet long. (Standard) Dean (Corn.). The end of a level. (Raymond) Debacle. 1. A great rush of waters, which, breaking down all opposing barriers, carries forward the broken f moments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. (Comstock) 2. The breaking up of ice in a stream.... | |
 | Charles Lyell - 1990 - 604 pages
...barriers, carries forward the broken fragments of rocks, and spreads them in its course. Etym., debacler, French, to unbar, to break up as a river does at the cessation of a long-continued frost. DKLTA. When a great river before it enters the sea divides into separate streams, they often diverge... | |
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DELTA. When a great river, before it enters the sea, divides into separate streams, they often diverge and form two sides of a triangle, the sea being the base. The land included by the three lines, and which is invariably alluvial, was first called,... 
