 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 pagina’s
...slowly by the continual passage of sand and gravel, washed over it from the talus of fallen fragments, which lies at the foot of the cliff on the beach above....means of estimating ; but the exact date and rate of destruction are immaterial. On this recently formed ledge, I saw several straight furrows half an... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 720 pagina’s
...gypsum. c. Capping of trap. d. Talus of blocks and pebbles of trap, amygdaloid, greenstone, &c. mining of the perpendicular cliff forming this promontory,...means of estimating ; but the exact date and rate of destruction Fig. 17. Recent furrows on ledge of sandstone at Cape Blomidon. are immaterial. On this... | |
 | 1847 - 586 pagina’s
...forming this prompntory, round .which the powerful currents caused by the tide sweep backwards #nd forwards with prodigious velocity, must satisfy every...question has been exposed to view is of modern date. On this recently formed ledge, I saw several straight furrows half an inch broad, some of them very... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 pagina’s
...forming this promontory, round which the powerful currents caused by the tide sweep backward and forward with prodigious velocity, must satisfy every geologist...the rocks forming the cliff extended so far as the water's edge, ten, fifty, or one hundred years ago, I have no means of estimating ; but the exact date... | |
 | George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham - 1889 - 662 pagina’s
...backward and forward with prodigious velocitv, mast satisfy every geologist that the denudation bv which the ledge in question has been exposed to view...the rocks forming the cliff extended so far as the water's edge, ten, fifty, or one hundred years ago, I have no means of estimating ; hut the exact date... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1911 - 848 pagina’s
...forming this promontory, round which the powerful currents caused by the tide sweep backward and forward with prodigious velocity, must satisfy every geologist...the rocks forming the cliff extended so far as the water's edge, ten, fifty, or one hundred years ago, I have no means of estimating ; but the exact date... | |
 | 1917 - 594 pagina’s
...forwards with prodiguv> velocity, must satisfy every geologist that the denudation by which the led^ in question has been exposed to view is of modern date. Whether the rockforming the cliff extended so far as the points [indicated] 10, 50, or H' years ago, I have no... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1919 - 810 pagina’s
...backwards and forwards with prodigious velocity, must satisfy every geologist that the denudation hy which the ledge in question has been exposed to view...rocks forming the cliff extended so far as the points [indicated] 10, 50, or 100 years ago, I have no means of estimating; but the exact date and rate of... | |
 | 1917 - 692 pagina’s
...slowly by the continual passage of sand and gravel, washed over it from the talus of fallen fragments, which lies at the foot of the cliff on the beach above....rocks forming the cliff extended so far as the points [indicated] 10, 50, or 100 years ago, I have no means of estimating; but the exact date and rate of... | |
 | 1845 - 746 pagina’s
...slowly by the continual passage of sand and gravel, washed over it from the talus of fallen fragments, which lies at the foot of the cliff on the beach above....rocks forming the cliff extended so far as the points o, 10, 50, or 100 years ago, I have no means of estimating ; but the exact date and rate of destruction... | |
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... passage of sand and gravel, washed over it from the talus of fallen fragments, which lies at the foot of the cliff on the beach above. The slow but constant undermining of the perpendicular cliff forming this promontory, round which the powerful currents... 