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... Changes of Level . APPENDIX . CATALOGUES OF ORGANIC REMAINS TABLE OF HEIGHTS .. .. .. EXPLANATION OF THE MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS .. INDEX : : : : : : 217 232 234 247 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Plate . .. VI . Valley xvi CONTENTS .
... Changes of Level . APPENDIX . CATALOGUES OF ORGANIC REMAINS TABLE OF HEIGHTS .. .. .. EXPLANATION OF THE MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS .. INDEX : : : : : : 217 232 234 247 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . Plate . .. VI . Valley xvi CONTENTS .
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... height of 5500 feet . Here it is abruptly cut down by the deep valley of the Rhone , which , running nearly due north and south , separates it from the ranges east of that river , in the departments Drôme , Isère , and Hautes Alpes . On ...
... height of 5500 feet . Here it is abruptly cut down by the deep valley of the Rhone , which , running nearly due north and south , separates it from the ranges east of that river , in the departments Drôme , Isère , and Hautes Alpes . On ...
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... height . ( See the woodcut above . ) The upper surface of the cliff is horizontal , and formed to the depth of 8 or 10 feet of a bed of boulders exactly the same as those which the river still rolls along its bed below . The strata ...
... height . ( See the woodcut above . ) The upper surface of the cliff is horizontal , and formed to the depth of 8 or 10 feet of a bed of boulders exactly the same as those which the river still rolls along its bed below . The strata ...
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... heights of the Cantal , near Murat , bearing the same characters as in the valleys of the Cère , the Goule , and the Jourdanne , it seems probable that the lake was continuous through the intervening area . III . BASIN OF THE HAUTE ...
... heights of the Cantal , near Murat , bearing the same characters as in the valleys of the Cère , the Goule , and the Jourdanne , it seems probable that the lake was continuous through the intervening area . III . BASIN OF THE HAUTE ...
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... heights of St. Bonnet and La Chaise Dieu on the east and north . One of these granitic spurs indeed stretches across the lacustrine formation , and separates it into two , cutting off the small basin of Emblavès from the upper and ...
... heights of St. Bonnet and La Chaise Dieu on the east and north . One of these granitic spurs indeed stretches across the lacustrine formation , and separates it into two , cutting off the small basin of Emblavès from the upper and ...
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Allier ancient appears Ardèche augite Auvergne basin bed of basalt breccia calcareous calcareous peperino Cantal cellular Central France chain of puys channel character Clermont clinkstone colour columnar compact conglomerate considerable contains covered crater Crown 8vo current of lava deposits distance district domite dyke east Edition elevation eruption evidently excavation Fcap feet felspar fissures flowed formed fragments freshwater formation geologists Gergovia gneiss granitic platform Graveneire Haute Loire heights hill Illustrations lacustrine lake lava lava-current Le Puy Limagne limestone marls mass matter Mezen miles Mont Dore Monts Dôme mountain neighbouring numerous observed occupied olivine Pariou peperino plain Plate plateau points Pomel Pont Portrait Post 8vo prisms probably Puy de Dôme recent remarkable ridge rise river rock sandstone scoriæ side Sioule slope strata stream of lava substance summit surface tertiary thick tion trachyte tuff valley vent Vivarais volcanic cones Vols Woodcuts
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