 ... commonly by faulting, exceptionally by flexure. In the latter, few eruptive rocks occur ; in the former, volcanic phenomena abound, and are intimately associated with ridges of upheaval. The regular alternations of curved...  The Journal of Geology - Page 276redigeeritud poolt - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.), George Montague Wheeler - 1874 - 92 lehte
...ridges of upheaval. The regular alternations of curved anticlinals and synclinals of the Appalachians demand the assumption of great horizontal diminution...lateral pressure as the immediate force concerned ; while in the Cordilleras, the displacement of comparatively rigid bodies of strata by vertical or... | |
 | Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.), George Montague Wheeler - 1874 - 76 lehte
...ridges of upheaval. The regular alternations of curved anticlinals and synclinals of the Appalachians demand the assumption of great horizontal diminution...lateral pressure as the immediate force concerned ; while in the Cordilleras, the displacement of comparatively rigid bodies of strata by vertical or... | |
 | Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.) - 1874 - 80 lehte
...ridges of upheaval. The regular alternations of curved anticlinals and synclinals of the Appalachians demand the assumption of great horizontal diminution...lateral pressure as the immediate force concerned ; while in the Cordilleras, the displacement of comparatively rigid bodies of strata by vertical or... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), John Wesley Powell - 1876 - 246 lehte
...ridges of upheaval. The regular alternations of curved anticlinals and synclinals of the Appalachians demand the assumption of great horizontal diminution...lateral pressure as the immediate force concerned; while in the Basin Ranges, the displacement of comparatively rigid bodies of strata by vertical or... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), John Wesley Powell - 1876 - 238 lehte
...ridges of upheaval. The regular alternations of curved anticlinal^ and synclinals of the Appalachians demand the assumption of great horizontal diminution of the space covered by the disturbed straia, and suggest lateral pressure ae the immediate force concerned; while in the .Basin Hanges,... | |
 | Geological Society of America - 1901 - 658 lehte
...Rept. lieog. and Heol. Survey West of the Hundredth Meridian, 1872, published in 1874, p. j£ sumption of great horizontal diminution of the space covered...lateral pressure as the immediate force concerned, while in the Cordilleras the displacement of comparatively rigid bodies of strata by vertical or nearly... | |
 | Raphael Pumpelly, William Morris Davis, Ellsworth Huntington - 1905 - 372 lehte
...of curved synclinals and anticlinals is contrasted with >rigid bodies of inclined strata, bounded by faults. The former demand the assumption of great...suggest the application of vertical pressure from below. * * * In the case of the Appalachians the primary phenomena are superficial; in that of the Basin ranges... | |
 | Raphael Pumpelly, William Morris Davis, Ellsworth Huntington - 1905 - 372 lehte
...of curved synclinals and anticlinals is contrasted with rigid bodies of inclined strata, bounded by faults. The former demand the assumption of great...suggest the application of vertical pressure from below. * * * In the case of the Appalachians the primary phenomena are superficial ; in that of the Basin... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - 1913 - 494 lehte
...ridges of upheaval. The regular alternations of curved anticlinal^ and synclinals of the Appalachians demand the assumption of great horizontal diminution...lateral pressure as the immediate force concerned; while in the Cordilleras the displacement of comparatively rigid bodies of strata by vertical or nearly... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - 1926 - 624 lehte
...former] is contrasted with rigid bodies of inclined strata, bounded by parallel faults [in the latter]. The former demand the assumption of great horizontal...suggest the application of vertical pressure from below (61). The author recognizes that much is yet to be learned about the basin ranges and that it would... | |
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