The Scenery of Scotland: Viewed in Connexion with Its Physical GeologyMacmillan, 1887 - 481 páginas |
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... from Boulder - Clay of North Medwin 363 Water , Lanarkshire 364 Fig . 85. - Section of Sand and Gravel Ridges ( Kames ) at Car- stairs , Lanarkshire 372 PART I. LAND - SCULPTURE IN GENERAL To roam at XX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
... from Boulder - Clay of North Medwin 363 Water , Lanarkshire 364 Fig . 85. - Section of Sand and Gravel Ridges ( Kames ) at Car- stairs , Lanarkshire 372 PART I. LAND - SCULPTURE IN GENERAL To roam at XX LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... ridge and undulating hollow , which , like the crests and troughs of a billowy sea , run , in a general sense , parallel with the coast - line . Many creeks and wide bays along the coast - line of Scotland furnish illustrations of the ...
... ridge and undulating hollow , which , like the crests and troughs of a billowy sea , run , in a general sense , parallel with the coast - line . Many creeks and wide bays along the coast - line of Scotland furnish illustrations of the ...
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... ridges with the line of the coast . On the west side of the country many tracts of dunes also occur . They are particularly abundant in the southern half of the Hebrides , where the Atlantic breezes have built up an almost continuous ...
... ridges with the line of the coast . On the west side of the country many tracts of dunes also occur . They are particularly abundant in the southern half of the Hebrides , where the Atlantic breezes have built up an almost continuous ...
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... ridges of gravel , there has been a great addition to the low ground of that region within the last few centuries . To this cause and the drifting of sand , Morayshire no doubt is indebted for having suffered less from the sea than her ...
... ridges of gravel , there has been a great addition to the low ground of that region within the last few centuries . To this cause and the drifting of sand , Morayshire no doubt is indebted for having suffered less from the sea than her ...
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... ridges of sand and the sea margin there runs along the parish of Kinloss , west of Findhorn , a band of coarse gravelly shingle , which acts to some extent as a bulwark against the waves . But that it has proved an ineffectual barrier ...
... ridges of sand and the sea margin there runs along the parish of Kinloss , west of Findhorn , a band of coarse gravelly shingle , which acts to some extent as a bulwark against the waves . But that it has proved an ineffectual barrier ...
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Ayrshire basalt basin beds boulder-clay boulders Caithness Carboniferous cliffs Clyde coast coast-line conglomerate conspicuous corries crags crest deep denudation deposits descend district drainage dykes east erosion escarpments feet Firth Firth of Clyde frosts geological structure Glacial glaciers Glen gneiss granite greywacke height high grounds Highlands hills hollow ice-sheet ice-worn island lake land landscape limestone Loch Loch Fyne Lomond Lower Old Red Lowlands marked mass Midland Valley miles moraines Moray Firth mounds mountains narrow northern Ochil Ochil Hills Old Red Sandstone once peat Pentland Hills Permian plain precipices present quartzite railway raised beach ravine region ridges rise river rocky runs sand scenery schists Scotland Scottish sea-lochs seen shores side Silurian Skye slopes smooth Southern Uplands stone strata stream striæ striking sub-aërial summit surface Sutherland table-land terrace traced tract volcanic rocks waste watershed western wide worn
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Página 374 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Página 7 - Be gather'd now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.
Página 316 - Urn-like it was in shape, deep as an urn ; With rocks encompassed, save that to the south Was one small opening, where a heath-clad ridge Supplied a boundary less abrupt and close ; A quiet treeless nook, with two green fields, A liquid pool that glittered in the sun, And one bare dwelling ; one abode, no more...
Página 72 - ... acclivity to a distance almost incredible. In the winter of 1802, a tabular-shaped mass, eight feet two inches by seven feet, and five feet one inch thick, was dislodged from its bed, and removed to a distance of from eighty to ninety feet.
Página 161 - Inscribed, as with the silence of the thought, Upon its bleak and visionary sides, The history of many a winter storm, Or obscure records of the path of fire.
Página 11 - If, indeed, a river consisted of a single stream without branches, running in a straight valley, it might be supposed that some great concussion, or some powerful torrent, had opened at once the channel by which its waters are conducted to the ocean; but, when the usual form of a river is considered, the trunk divided into many branches, which rise at...
Página 244 - From dark and icy caverns called you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever?
Página 59 - This massive structure, rising 112 feet above the sea-level, 'is literally buried in foam and spray to the very top during ground swells when there is no wind.' Experiments were made there from the middle of September 1844 to the end of March 1845, and the greatest recorded pressure was 3013 pounds on the square foot.
Página 59 - It is certain, however, that within a recent period the sea has made such an impression upon the sands of Barrey, on the northern side of the Tay, that the light-houses at the entrance of...