A Manual of Elementary Geology or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments

BOOK II.

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CHANGES NOW IN PROGRESS IN THE INORGANIC WORLD.

8. Aqueous causes now in action: Floods--Rivers--Carrying power of ice--Springs and their deposits--Deltas--Waste of cliffs and strata produced by marine currents: chaps. xiv. to xxii.

9. Permanent effects of igneous causes now in operation: Active volcanos and earthquakes--their effects and causes: chaps. xxiii. to xxxiii.