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Rivers are mostly torrential, and their valleys are accompanied by series of river
terraces that are the result of movements in the Earth's crust. Recent volcanoes
are juxtaposed with old and highly dissected ones. The shores are characterized
...
Rivers are mostly torrential, and their valleys are accompanied by series of river
terraces that are the result of movements in the Earth's crust. Recent volcanoes
are juxtaposed with old and highly dissected ones. The shores are characterized
...
Page 340
... climatic change, and drying of the soil due to valley downcutting and drainage
change. The iron-enriched layer occurs closer to the ground surface with
increasing distance from the Equator, and north of 14° north only fossil crusts are
found.
... climatic change, and drying of the soil due to valley downcutting and drainage
change. The iron-enriched layer occurs closer to the ground surface with
increasing distance from the Equator, and north of 14° north only fossil crusts are
found.
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OROGENIC ACTIVITY AND VOLCANISM The varying distribution of land and
sea primarily is caused by epeirogeny, or the relatively mild deformation and
vertical movement of the earth's crust. A cyclically advancing invasion of the sea
from ...
OROGENIC ACTIVITY AND VOLCANISM The varying distribution of land and
sea primarily is caused by epeirogeny, or the relatively mild deformation and
vertical movement of the earth's crust. A cyclically advancing invasion of the sea
from ...
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| Title | The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: In 30 Volumes : Micropaedia : Ready Reference and Index. Tiranė - Żywny, Volume 10 |
| Editor | William Benton |
| Edition | 15 |
| Publisher | Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1983 |
| ISBN | 085229400X, 9780852294000 |
| Length | 1060 pages |
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