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IV.—On Fissures, Faults, Contortions, and Slaty-Cleavage1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
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It was contended in a previous communication that all valleys have been formed by sub-aërial agencies alone, and that the disintegrated materials, being carried seaward by the rivers traversing them, have accumulated to immense thicknesses in what had been formerly a continuation of these valleys, and have, by their weight, caused progressive subsidence, and so have formed bays and to some extent deltas at and near their mouths.
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An Abstract of a paper read before the Liverpool Geological Society as the President's Address for the Sessioa 1872–73.
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page 202 note 2 “On Subsidence as the Effect of Accumulation,” Geological Magazine, 1872. Vol. IX., p. 119.
page 204 note 1 See Scrope, “Volcanos,” p. 8.
page 206 note 1 Presidential Address, Quart. Journ. Geol. Sec., vol. vi., p. liv.
page 207 note 1 Memoirs of the Geological Survey, vol. ii. Geology of the Malvern Hills, p. 142.
page 207 note 2 Student's Manual of Geology, chap. xiii.
page 207 note 3 Sir C. Lyell, Presidential Address, 1850, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, vol. vi., p. lxiii.
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