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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LEUTUKE 111. Dutrihttion of tht table lands, the mountains, and the plains in tht different continents; the Old World that of plateaus, the New World that of plains ? The basin of the oceans; this inquiry completes the study of the plastic forms of the earth's crust ? Division and characteristics of the oceans; their contours and their depth ? Comparison of the latter with the mean elevation of the continents ? Conclusions ? Necessity of considering the physiology of the conti nental forms? Point of view which should be taken?Law of the development of life. Ladies And Gentlemen: ? In our last lecture we carried our examination into the general forms of relief of the continents. Our investigation has permitted us to establish the existence of a great common law of slopes and counter-slopes, of increase and decrease of reliefs. The entire continents, as well as the mountains, have two principal unequal slopes; the long and gentle slopes descend towards the Atlantic and Frozen Ocean, the short and steep slopes towards the Pacific Ocean. To finish this subject. it remains to say a word upon the distribution of the table lands, of the mountains, and of the plains in the different continents. The distribution of these three great forms of relief? is it uniform or not ? Or are there not some characteristic differences, to be pointed out in this regaid, between the continents 1 Does not the form of the elevated tablt lands prevail in one part of the world, the form of the plains in another, the form of the mountains, fin illy, in yet a third ? If we call to mind the important influenco each of these forms exerts on the climate, the productions, and on the conditions of existence, and growth of the nations, we shall regard this question as one of those which most concern ou...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217952088 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217952089 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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