Memoirs of Explorations in the Basin of the Mississippi (Paperback)
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, BuySomeBooks [52360437], Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 32 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: . . . effects of the melting ice-sheet, occasionally re-overflowed the entire plain, disturbing and overturning the sandy surface, mixing into its materials every chipped quartz blade or spall which had been placed by the hand of man upon the surface adjoining the newly eroded and narrower channel. The higher altitudes of the plain along the Mississippi between The Notch and the dam were caused by succcessive stages of recurring over flo wage, creating additional surface deposits upon the plain nearest to the newly formed river bank. Ages elapsed until new conditions arose. The ice-sheet disappeared, the waters receded into a lower channel which had been rapidly eroded to the bedrock, forming tumultuous rapids; a creek bed was eroded down through the lower plain as a result of natural drainage southward past Hole-in-the-day Muff: and the city of Little Falls has caused street grades to be adjusted by cutting through the surface of the ancient postglacial island exposing its hidden quartzes, meanwhile filling the lower levels of the street to the eastward. These determinations are not theories, but ascertained facts obtained by examining the exposed walls of a series of trenches and pits across the plain at Little Falls, calling to my assistance distinguished geologists who have greatly simplified the complicated study by their scientific knowledge. Photographing the walls of excavations, sifting the sands and gravels and gathering therefrom several thousand specimens of white quartz implements, chips, spalls and objects laid down by people who were in contemporaneous existence with the forces of nature which caused the hydrographic action of the floods when the sandy plain upon which the city of Little Falls has been established was surfaced by a wat. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, profnath.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... effects of the melting ice-sheet, occasionally re-overflowed the entire plain, disturbing and overturning the sandy surface, mixing into its materials every chipped quartz blade or spall which had been placed by the hand of man upon the surface adjoining the newly eroded and narrower channel. The higher altitudes of the plain along the Mississippi between "The Notch" and the dam were caused by succcessive stages of recurring over flo wage, creating additional surface deposits upon the plain nearest to the newly formed river bank. Ages elapsed until new conditions arose. The ice-sheet disappeared, the waters receded into a lower channel which had been rapidly eroded to the bedrock, forming tumultuous rapids; a creek bed was eroded down through the lower plain as a result of natural drainage southward past Hole-in-the-day Muff: and the city of Little Falls has caused street grades to be adjusted by cutting through the surface of the ancient postglacial island exposing its hidden quartzes, meanwhile filling the lower levels of the street to the eastward. These determinations are not theories, but ascertained facts obtained by examining the exposed walls of a series of trenches and pits across the plain at Little Falls, calling to my assistance distinguished geologists who have greatly simplified the complicated study by their scientific knowledge. Photographing the walls of excavations, sifting the sands and gravels and gathering therefrom several thousand specimens of white quartz implements, chips, spalls and objects laid down by people who were in contemporaneous existence with the forces of nature which caused the hydrographic action of the floods when the sandy plain upon which the city of Little Falls has been established was surfaced by a wat... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2012-03-06, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Amazon.com.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ... effects of the melting ice-sheet, occasionally re-overflowed the entire plain, disturbing and overturning the sandy surface, mixing into its materials every chipped quartz blade or spall which had been placed by the hand of man upon the surface adjoining the newly eroded and narrower channel. The higher altitudes of the plain along the Mississippi between "The Notch" and the dam were caused by succcessive stages of recurring over flo wage, creating additional surface deposits upon the plain nearest to the newly formed river bank. Ages elapsed until new conditions arose. The ice-sheet disappeared, the waters receded into a lower channel which had been rapidly eroded to the bedrock, forming tumultuous rapids; a creek bed was eroded down through the lower plain as a result of natural drainage southward past Hole-in-the-day Muff: and the city of Little Falls has caused street grades to be adjusted by cutting through the surface of the ancient postglacial island exposing its hidden quartzes, meanwhile filling the lower levels of the street to the eastward. These determinations are not theories, but ascertained facts obtained by examining the exposed walls of a series of trenches and pits across the plain at Little Falls, calling to my assistance distinguished geologists who have greatly simplified the complicated study by their scientific knowledge. Photographing the walls of excavations, sifting the sands and gravels and gathering therefrom several thousand specimens of white quartz implements, chips, spalls and objects laid down by people who were in contemporaneous existence with the forces of nature which caused the hydrographic action of the floods when the sandy plain upon which the city of Little Falls has been established was surfaced by a wat... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2012-03-06, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Book Depository [54837791], London, United Kingdom.
Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: . effects of the melting ice-sheet, occasionally re-overflowed the entire plain, disturbing and overturning the sandy surface, mixing into its materials every chipped quartz blade or spall which had been placed by the hand of man upon the surface adjoining the newly eroded and narrower channel. The higher altitudes of the plain along the Mississippi between The Notch and the dam were caused by succcessive stages of recurring over flo wage, creating additional surface deposits upon the plain nearest to the newly formed river bank. Ages elapsed until new conditions arose. The ice-sheet disappeared, the waters receded into a lower channel which had been rapidly eroded to the bedrock, forming tumultuous rapids; a creek bed was eroded down through the lower plain as a result of natural drainage southward past Hole-in-the-day Muff: and the city of Little Falls has caused street grades to be adjusted by cutting through the surface of the ancient postglacial island exposing its hidden quartzes, meanwhile filling the lower levels of the street to the eastward. These determinations are not theories, but ascertained facts obtained by examining the exposed walls of a series of trenches and pits across the plain at Little Falls, calling to my assistance distinguished geologists who have greatly simplified the complicated study by their scientific knowledge. Photographing the walls of excavations, sifting the sands and gravels and gathering therefrom several thousand specimens of white quartz implements, chips, spalls and objects laid down by people who were in contemporaneous existence with the forces of nature which caused the hydrographic action of the floods when the sandy plain upon which the city of Little Falls has been established was surfaced by a wat.