| FIG. | | PAGE |
| 1. | Diagram to show the measure of the earth’s surface irregularities | [11] |
| 2. | Map to show the reciprocal relation of areas of land and sea | [11] |
| 3. | The tetrahedral form toward which the earth is tending | [12] |
| 4. | A truncated tetrahedron to show the reciprocal relation of projection
and depression upon the surface | [13] |
| 5. | Approximations to earlier and present figures of the earth | [15] |
| 6. | Diagrams for comparison of coasts upon an upright and upon an inverted
tetrahedron | [17] |
| 7. | The continents, including submerged portions | [18] |
| 8. | Diagram to indicate the altitude of different parts of the lithosphere
surface | [18] |
| 9. | Diagram to show how the terrestrial rocks grade into the meteorites | [22] |
| 10. | Comparison of a crystalline with an amorphous substance | [24] |
| 11. | “Light figure” seen upon etched surface of calcite | [25] |
| 12. | Battered sand grains which have developed crystal faces | [26] |
| 13. | Unassimilated grains of quartz within a garnet crystal | [28] |
| 14. | New minerals developed about the core of an augite crystal | [28] |
| 15. | A common rim of new mineral developed by reaction where earlier
minerals come into contact | [28] |
| 16. | Laminated structure of a sedimentary rock | [30] |
| 17. | Characteristic textures of igneous rocks | [33] |
| 18. | Diagram to show the order of sediments laid down during a transgression
of the sea | [37] |
| 19. | Fractures produced by compression of a block of molder’s wax | [41] |
| 20. | Apparatus to illustrate the folding of strata | [41] |
| 21. | Diagrams of fold types | [42] |
| 22. | Diagrams to illustrate crustal shortening | [42] |
| 23. | Anticlinal and synclinal folds | [43] |
| 24. | Diagrams to illustrate the shapes of rock folds | [44] |
| 25. | Secondary and tertiary flexures superimposed upon the primary ones | [44] |
| 26. | A bent stratum to illustrate tension and compression upon opposite
sides | [45] |
| 27. | A geological section with truncated arches restored | [47] |
| 28. | Diagram to illustrate the nature of strike and dip | [47] |
| 29. | Diagram to show the use of T symbols for strike and dip observation | [48] |
| 30. | Diagram to show how the thickness of a formation is determined | [49] |
| 31. | A plunging anticline | [50] |
| 32. | A plunging syncline | [50] |
| 33. | An unconformity upon the coast of California | [51] |
| 34. | Series of diagrams to illustrate the episodes involved in the production
of an angular unconformity | [52] |
| 35. | Types of deceptive or erosional unconformities | [53] |
| 36. | A set of master joints in shale | [55] |
| 37. | Diagram to show the manner of replacement of one set of joints by
another | [56] |
| 38. | Diagram to show the different combinations of joint series | [56] |
| 39. | View of the shore in West Greenland | [57] |
| 40. | View in Iceland which shows joint intervals of more than one order | [57] |
| 41. | Faulted blocks of basalt near Woodbury, Connecticut | [58] |
| 42. | A fault in previously disturbed strata | [59] |
| 43. | Diagram to show the effect of erosion upon a fault | [60] |
| 44. | A fault plane exhibiting drag | [60] |
| 45. | Map to show how a fault may be indicated by abrupt changes in strike
and dip | [61] |
| 46. | A series of parallel faults revealed by offsets | [61] |
| 47. | Field map prepared from the laboratory table | [64] |
| 48. | Areal geological map based upon the field map | [64] |
| 49. | A portion of the ruins of Messina | [67] |
| 50. | Ruins of the Carnegie Palace of Peace at Cartaga, Costa Rica | [68] |
| 51. | Overturned bowlders from Assam earthquake of 1897 | [69] |
| 52. | Post sunk into ground during Charleston earthquake | [69] |
| 53. | Map showing localities where shocks have been reported at sea off
Cape Mendocino, California | [70] |
| 54. | Effect of seismic water wave in Japan | [70] |
| 55. | A fault of vertical displacement | [71] |
| 56. | Escarpment produced by an earthquake fault in India | [72] |
| 57. | A fault of lateral displacement | [72] |
| 58. | Fence parted and displaced by lateral displacement on fault during
California earthquake | [72] |
| 59. | Fault with vertical and lateral displacements combined | [72] |
| 60. | Diagram to show how small faults may be masked at the earth’s surface | [73] |
| 61. | “Mole hill” effect above buried earthquake fault | [73] |
| 62. | Post-glacial earthquake faults | [74] |
| 63. | Earthquake cracks in Colorado desert | [74] |
| 64. | Railway tracks broken or buckled at time of earthquake | [75] |
| 65. | Railroad bridge in Japan damaged by earthquake | [75] |
| 66. | Diagrams to show contraction of earth’s crust during an earthquake | [76] |
| 67. | Map of the Chedrang fault of India | [76] |
| 68. | Displacements along earthquake fault in Alaska | [77] |
| 69. | Abrupt change in direction of throw upon an earthquake fault | [77] |
| 70. | Map of faults in the Owens Valley, California, formed during earthquake
of 1872 | [78] |
| 71. | Marquetry of the rock floor in the Tonopah district, Nevada | [79] |
| 72. | Map of Alaskan coast to show adjustments of level during an earthquake | [79] |
| 73. | An Alaskan shore elevated seventeen feet during the earthquake of
1899 | [80] |
| 74. | Partially submerged forest from depression of shore in Alaska during
earthquake | [80] |
| 75. | Effect of settlement of the shore at Port Royal during earthquake of
1907 | [80] |
| 76. | Diagrams to illustrate the draining of lakes during earthquakes | [83] |
| 77. | Diagram to illustrate the derangements of water flow during an
earthquake | [84] |
| 78. | Mud cones aligned upon an earthquake fissure in Servia | [84] |
| 79. | Craterlet formed near Charleston, South Carolina, during the earthquake
of 1886 | [85] |
| 80. | Cross section of a craterlet | [85] |
| 81. | Map of the island of Ischia to show the concentration of earthquake
shocks | [87] |
| 82. | A line of earth fracture revealed in the plan of the relief | [87] |
| 83. | Seismotectonic lines of the West Indies | [88] |
| 84. | Device to illustrate the different effects of earthquakes in firm rock
and in loose materials | [88] |
| 85. | House wrecked in San Francisco earthquake | [90] |
| 86. | Building wrecked in California earthquake by roof and upper floor
battering down the upper walls | [91] |
| 87. | Breached volcanic cone in New Zealand showing the bending down
of the strata near the vent | [96] |
| 88. | View of the new Camiguin volcano formed in 1871 in the Philippines | [97] |
| 89. | Map to show the belts of active volcanoes | [98] |
| 90. | A portion of the “fire girdle” of the Pacific | [98] |
| 91. | Volcanic cones formed in 1783 above the Skaptár fissure in Iceland | [99] |
| 92. | Diagrams to illustrate the location of volcanic vents upon fissure lines | [100] |
| 93. | Outline map showing the arrangement of volcanic vents upon the
island of Java | [100] |
| 94. | Map showing the migration of volcanoes along a fissure | [101] |
| 95. | Basaltic plateau of the northwestern United States due to fissure
eruptions of lava | [102] |
| 96. | Lava plains about the Snake River in Idaho | [102] |
| 97. | Characteristic profiles of lava volcanoes | [103] |
| 98. | A driblet cone | [104] |
| 99. | Leffingwell Crater, a cinder cone in the Owens Valley, California | [104] |
| 100. | Map of Hawaii and its lava volcanoes | [106] |
| 101. | Section through Mauna Loa and Kilauea | [106] |
| 102. | Schematic diagram to illustrate the moving platform in the crater of
Kilauea | [107] |
| 103. | View of the open lava lake of Halemaumau | [108] |
| 104. | Map to show the manner of outflow of the lava from Kilauea in the
eruption of 1840 | [109] |
| 105. | Lava of Matavanu flowing down to the sea during the eruption of
1906 | [110] |
| 106. | Lava stream discharging into the sea from a lava tunnel | [111] |
| 107. | Diagrammatic representation of the structure of lava volcanoes as a
result of the draining of frozen lava streams | [112] |
| 108. | Diagram to show the formation of mesas by outflow of lava in valleys
and subsequent erosion | [112] |
| 109. | Surface of lava of the Pahoehoe type | [113] |
| 110. | Three successive views to show the growth of the island of Savaii,
from lava outflow in 1906 | [113] |
| 111. | View of the volcano of Stromboli showing the excentric position of
the crater | [116] |
| 112. | Diagrams to illustrate the eruptions within the crater of Stromboli | [117] |
| 113. | Map of Volcano in the Æolian Islands | [118] |
| 114. | “Bread-crust” lava projectile from the eruption of Volcano in 1888 | [119] |
| 115. | “Cauliflower cloud” of steam and ash rising above the cinder cone
of Volcano | [120] |
| 116. | Eruption of Taal volcano in 1911 seen from a distance of six miles | [120] |
| 117. | The thick mud veneer upon the island of Taal (after a photograph
by Deniston) | [121] |
| 118. | A pear-shaped lava projectile | [121] |
| 119. | Artificial production of a cinder cone | [122] |
| 120. | Diagram to show the contrast between a lava dome and a cinder cone | [123] |
| 121. | Mayon volcano on the island of Luzon, Philippine Islands | [123] |
| 122. | A series of breached cinder cones due to migration of the eruption
along a fissure | [124] |
| 123. | The mouth upon the inner cone of Mount Vesuvius from which flowed
the lava of 1872 | [124] |
| 124. | A row of parasitic cones raised above a fissure opened on the flanks
of Etna in 1892 | [125] |
| 125. | View of Etna, showing the parasitic cones upon its flanks | [125] |
| 126. | Sketch map of Etna to show the areas covered by lava and tuff respectively | [126] |
| 127. | Panum crater showing the caldera | [126] |
| 128. | View of Mount Vesuvius before the eruption of 1906 | [127] |
| 129. | Sketches of the summit of the Vesuvian cone to bring out the changes
in its outline | [128] |
| 130. | Night view of Vesuvius from Naples before the outbreak of 1906,
showing a small lava stream descending the central cone | [129] |
| 131. | Scoriaceous lava encroaching upon the tracks of the Vesuvian railway | [130] |
| 132. | Map of Vesuvius, showing the position of the lava mouths opened
upon its flanks during the eruption of 1906 | [131] |
| 133. | The ash curtain over Vesuvius lifting and disclosing the outlines of
the mountain | [132] |
| 134. | The central cone of Vesuvius as it appeared after the eruption of 1906 | [132] |
| 135. | A sunken road upon Vesuvius filled with indrifted ash | [133] |
| 136. | View of Vesuvius from the southwest during the waning stages of
the eruption | [133] |
| 137. | The main lava stream advancing upon Boscotrecase | [133] |
| 138. | A pine snapped off by the lava and carried forward upon its surface | [133] |
| 139. | Lava front pushing over and running around a wall in its path | [134] |
| 140. | One of the ruined villas in Boscotrecase | [134] |
| 141. | Three diagrams to illustrate the sequence of events during the cone-building
and crater-producing periods | [135] |
| 142. | The spine of Pelé rising above the chimney of the volcano after the
eruption of 1902 | [136] |
| 143. | Successive outlines of the Pelé spine | [137] |
| 144. | Corrugated surface of the Vesuvian cone due to the mud flows which
followed the eruption of 1906 | [138] |
| 145. | View of the Kammerbühl near Eger in Bohemia | [139] |
| 146. | Volcanic plug exposed by natural dissection of a volcanic cone in
Colorado | [140] |
| 147. | A dike cutting beds of tuff in a partly dissected volcano of southwestern
Colorado | [140] |
| 148. | Map and general view of St. Paul’s rocks, a volcanic cone dissected
by waves | [141] |
| 149. | Dissection by explosion of Little Bandai-san in 1888 | [141] |
| 150. | The half-submerged volcano of Krakatoa before and after the eruption
of 1883 | [142] |
| 151. | The cicatrice of the Banat | [142] |
| 152. | Diagram to illustrate a probable cause of formation of lava reservoirs
and the connection with volcanoes upon the surface | [143] |
| 153. | Effect of relief of load upon rocks by arching of a competent formation | [144] |
| 154. | Character profiles connected with volcanoes | [146] |
| 155. | Diagrams to show the effect of decomposition in producing spheroidal
bowlders | [150] |
| 156. | Spheroidal weathering of an igneous rock | [151] |
| 157. | Dome structure in granite mass | [152] |
| 158. | Talus slope beneath a cliff | [153] |
| 159. | Striped ground from soil flow | [154] |
| 160. | Pavement of horizontal surface due to soil flow | [154] |
| 161. | Tree roots prying rock apart on fissure | [154] |
| 162. | Bowlder split by a growing tree | [155] |
| 163. | Rock mantle beneath soil and vegetable mat | [155] |
| 164. | Diagram to show the varying thickness of mantle rock upon the
different portions of a hill surface | [156] |
| 165. | Gullies from earliest stage of a river’s life | [160] |
| 166. | Partially dissected upland | [160] |
| 167. | Longitudinal sections of upper portion of a river valley | [161] |
| 168. | Map and sections of a stream meander | [163] |
| 169. | Tree undermined on the outer bank of a meander | [164] |
| 170. | Diagrams to show the successive positions of stream meanders | [164] |
| 171. | An ox-bow lake in the flood plain of a river | [165] |
| 172. | Schematic representation of a series of river terraces | [165] |
| 173. | “Bird-foot” delta of the Mississippi River | [167] |
| 174. | Diagrams to show the nature of delta deposits as exhibited in sections | [168] |
| 175. | Gorge of the River Rhine near St. Goars | [169] |
| 176. | Valley with rounded shoulders characteristic of the stage of adolescence | [170] |
| 177. | View of a maturely dissected upland | [170] |
| 178. | Hogarth’s line of beauty | [171] |
| 179. | View of the oldland of New England, with Mount Monadnock rising
in the distance | [171] |
| 180. | Comparison of the cross sections of river valleys of different stages | [172] |
| 181. | The Beavertail Bend of the Yakima River | [173] |
| 182. | A rejuvenated river valley | [174] |
| 183. | Plan of a river narrows | [174] |
| 184. | Successive diagrams to illustrate the origin of “trellis drainage” | [175] |
| 185. | Sketch maps to show the earlier and present drainage near Harper’s
Ferry | [176] |
| 186. | Section to illustrate the history of Snickers Gap | [177] |
| 187. | Character profiles of landscapes shaped by stream erosion in humid
climates | [177] |
| 188. | Diagram to show the seasonal range in the position of the water table | [180] |
| 189. | Diagram to show the effect of an impervious layer upon the descending
water | [181] |
| 190. | Sketch map to illustrate corrosion of limestone along two series of
vertical joints | [181] |
| 191. | Diagram to show the relation of limestone caverns to the river system
of the district | [182] |
| 192. | Plan of a portion of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky | [183] |
| 193. | Trees and shrubs growing upon the bottoms of limestone sinks | [183] |
| 194. | Diagrams to show the manner of formation of stalactites and stalagmites | [185] |
| 195. | Sinter formations in the Luray caverns | [186] |
| 196. | Map of the dolines of the Karst region | [187] |
| 197. | Cross section of a doline formed by inbreak | [187] |
| 198. | Sharp Karren of the Ifenplatte | [188] |
| 199. | The Zirknitz seasonal lake | [189] |
| 200. | Fissure springs arranged at intersections of rock fractures | [190] |
| 201. | Schematic diagrams to illustrate the different types of artesian wells | [191] |
| 202. | Cross section of Geysir, Iceland | [192] |
| 203. | Apparatus for simulating geyser action | [193] |
| 204. | Cone of siliceous sinter about the Lone Star Geyser | [194] |
| 205. | Former shore lines in the Great Basin | [198] |
| 206. | Map of the former Lake Bonneville | [199] |
| 207. | Borax deposits in Death Valley, California | [201] |
| 208. | Hollowed forms of weathered granite in a desert of Central Asia | [201] |
| 209. | Hollow hewn blocks in a wall in the Wadi Guerraui | [202] |
| 210. | Smooth granite domes shaped by exfoliation | [203] |
| 211. | Granite blocks rent by diffission | [204] |
| 212. | “Mushroom Rock” from a desert in Wyoming | [205] |
| 213. | Windkanten shaped by sand blast in the desert | [205] |
| 214. | The “stone lattice” of the desert | [206] |
| 215. | Shadow erosion in the desert | [206] |
| 216. | Cliffs in loess with characteristic vertical jointing | [207] |
| 217. | A cañon in loess worn by traffic and wind | [207] |
| 218. | Diagrams to illustrate the effects of obstructions in arresting wind-driven
sand | [209] |
| 219. | Sand accumulating on either side of a firm and impenetrable obstruction | [210] |
| 220. | Successive diagrams to illustrate the history of the town of Kunzen
upon the Kurische Nehrung | [210] |
| 221. | View of desert barchans | [211] |
| 222. | Diagrams to show the relationships of dunes to sand supply and wind
direction | [211] |
| 223. | Ideal section showing the rising mountain wall about a desert and
the neighboring slope | [212] |
| 224. | Dry delta at the foot of a range upon the borders of a desert | [213] |
| 225. | Map of distributaries of streams which issue at the western base of
the Sierra Nevadas | [213] |
| 226. | A group of “demoiselles” in the “bad lands” | [214] |
| 227. | Amphitheater at the head of the Wadi Beni Sur | [215] |
| 228. | Mesa and outlier in the Leucite Hills of Wyoming | [216] |
| 229. | Flat-bottomed basin separating dunes | [216] |
| 230. | Billowy surface of the salt crust on the central sink of the desert of
Lop | [217] |
| 231. | Schematic diagram to show the zones of deposition in their order
from the margin to the center of a desert | [217] |
| 232. | Mounds upon the site of the buried city of Nippur | [218] |
| 233. | Exhumed structures in the buried city of Nippur | [218] |
| 234. | Section across the High Plains | [219] |
| 235. | Section across the lenticular threads of alluvial deposits of the High
Plains | [220] |
| 236. | Distributaries of the foot hills superimposed upon an earlier series | [220] |
| 237. | Character profiles in the landscapes of arid lands | [220] |
| 238. | Rain sculpturing under control by joints | [224] |
| 239. | Sagging of limestone above joints | [224] |
| 240. | Map of the joint-controlled Abisko Cañon in Northern Lapland | [225] |
| 241. | Map of the gorge of the Zambesi River below Victoria Falls | [225] |
| 242. | Controlled drainage network of the Shepaug River in Connecticut | [226] |
| 243. | A river network of repeating rectangular pattern | [226] |
| 244. | Squared mountain masses which reveal a distribution of joints in
block patterns of different orders | [228] |
| 245. | Island groups of the Lofoten Archipelago | [229] |
| 246. | Diagrams to illustrate the composite profiles of the islands on the
Norwegian coast | [229] |
| 247. | Diagram to show the nature of the motions within a free water wave | [231] |
| 248. | Diagram to illustrate the transformation of a free wave into a breaker | [232] |
| 249. | Notched rock cliff and fallen blocks | [233] |
| 250. | A wave-cut chasm under control by joints | [233] |
| 251. | Grand Arch upon one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior | [234] |
| 252. | Stack near the shore of Lake Superior | [234] |
| 253. | The Marble Islands, stacks in a lake of the southern Andes | [235] |
| 254. | Squared stacks revealing the position of the joint planes on which
they were carved | [235] |
| 255. | Ideal section cut by waves upon a steep rocky shore | [236] |
| 256. | Map showing the outlines of the island of Heligoland at different
stages in its history | [236] |
| 257. | Ideal section carved by waves upon a steep shore of loose materials | [237] |
| 258. | Sloping cliff and boulder pavement at Scituate, Massachusetts | [237] |
| 259. | Map to show the nature of the shore current and the forms which are
molded by it | [238] |
| 260. | Crescent-shaped beach in the lee of a headland | [239] |
| 261. | Cross section of a beach pebble | [239] |
| 262. | A storm beach on the northeast shore of Green Bay | [240] |
| 263. | Spit of shingle on Au Train Island, Lake Superior | [240] |
| 264. | Barrier beach in front of a lagoon | [241] |
| 265. | Cross section of a barrier beach with lagoon in its rear | [242] |
| 266. | Cross section of a series of barriers and an outer bar | [242] |
| 267. | A barrier series and an outer bar on Lake Mendota at Madison,
Wisconsin | [242] |
| 268. | Series of barriers at the western end of Lake Superior | [243] |
| 269. | Character profiles resulting from wave action upon shores | [243] |
| 270. | The even shore line of a raised coast | [246] |
| 271. | The ragged coast line produced by subsidence | [246] |
| 272. | Portion of the Atlantic coastal plain at the base of the oldland | [246] |
| 273. | Ideal form of cuestas and intermediate lowlands carved from a coastal
plain | [247] |
| 274. | Uplifted sea cave on the coast of California | [248] |
| 275. | Double-notched cliff near Cape Tiro, Celebes | [248] |
| 276. | Uplifted stacks on the coast of California | [249] |
| 277. | Uplifted shingle beach across the entrance to a former bay upon the
coast of California | [250] |
| 278. | Raised beach terraces near Elie, Fife, Scotland | [250] |
| 279. | Uplifted sea cliffs and terraces on the Alaskan coast | [250] |
| 280. | Diagrams to show how excessive sinking upon the sea floor will cause
the shore to migrate landward | [251] |
| 281. | A drowned river mouth or estuary upon a coastal plain | [251] |
| 282. | Archipelago of steep rocky islets due to submergence | [252] |
| 283. | The submerged Hudsonian channel which continues the Hudson
River across the continental shelf | [252] |
| 284. | Marine clay deposits near the mouths of the Maine rivers which preserve
a record of earlier subsidence and later elevation | [253] |
| 285. | View of the three standing columns of the Temple of Jupiter Serapis,
at Pozzuoli | [254] |
| 286. | Three successive views to set forth the recent oscillations of level on
the northern shore of the Bay of Naples | [255] |
| 287. | Relief map of San Clemente Island, California | [256] |
| 288. | Relief map of Santa Catalina Island, California | [257] |
| 289. | Cross section of the Blue Grotto, on the island of Capri | [258] |
| 290. | Character profiles of coast elevation and subsidence | [259] |
| 291. | Map showing the distribution of existing glaciers and the two important
wind poles of the earth | [263] |
| 292. | An Alaskan glacier spreading out at the foot of the range which
nourishes it | [264] |
| 293. | Surface of a glacier whose upper layers spread with but slight restraint
from retaining walls | [265] |
| 294. | Section through a mountain glacier | [267] |
| 295. | Profile across the largest of the Icelandic ice caps | [267] |
| 296. | Ideal section across a continental glacier | [267] |
| 297. | View of the Eyriks Jökull, an ice cap of Iceland | [268] |
| 298. | The zones of the lower atmosphere as revealed by recent kite and
balloon exploration | [269] |
| 299. | Map of Greenland, showing the area of inland ice and the routes of
explorers | [271] |
| 300. | Profile in natural proportions across the southern end of the continental
glacier of Greenland | [272] |
| 301. | Map of a glacier tongue with dimple above | [273] |
| 302. | Edge of the Greenland inland ice, showing the nunataks diminishing
in size toward the interior | [274] |
| 303. | Moat surrounding a nunatak in Victoria Land | [274] |
| 304. | A glacier pavement of Permo-Carboniferous age in South Africa | [276] |
| 305. | Diagrams to illustrate the manner of formation of scape colks | [277] |
| 306. | Marginal moraine now forming at the edge of the continental glacier
of Greenland | [279] |
| 307. | Small lake between the ice front and a moraine which it has recently
built | [279] |
| 308. | View of a drained lake bottom between the ice front and an abandoned
moraine | [280] |
| 309. | Diagrams to show the manner of formation and the structure of an
outwash plain and fosse | [280] |
| 310. | Map of the ice masses of Victoria Land, Antarctica | [282] |
| 311. | Sections across the inland ice and the shelf ice of Antarctica | [283] |
| 312. | Diagram to show the nature of the fixed glacial anticyclone above
continental glaciers | [284] |
| 313. | Snow deltas about the margins of a glacier tongue in Greenland | [285] |
| 314. | View of the sea ice of the Arctic region | [286] |
| 315. | Map of the north polar regions, showing the area of drift ice and the
tracks of the Jeannette and the Fram | [288] |
| 316. | The shelf ice of Coats Land with surrounding pack ice | [290] |
| 317. | Tidewater cliff on a glacier tongue from which icebergs are born | [290] |
| 318. | A Greenlandic iceberg after a long journey in warm latitudes | [291] |
| 319. | Diagram showing one way in which northern icebergs are born from
the glacier tongue | [291] |
| 320. | A northern iceberg surrounded by sea ice | [292] |
| 321. | Tabular Antarctic iceberg separating from the shelf ice | [293] |
| 322. | Map of the globe, showing the areas covered by continental glaciers
during the “ice age” | [297] |
| 323. | Glaciated granite bowlder weathered out of a moraine of Permo-Carboniferous
age, South Australia | [298] |
| 324. | Map to show the glaciated and nonglaciated regions of North
America | [298] |
| 325. | Map of the glaciated and nonglaciated areas of northern Europe | [299] |
| 326. | An unstable erosion remnant characteristic of the “driftless area” | [300] |
| 327. | Diagram showing the manner in which a continental glacier obliterates
existing valleys | [301] |
| 328. | Lake and marsh district in northern Wisconsin | [302] |
| 329. | Cross section in natural proportion of the latest North American
continental glacier | [303] |
| 330. | Diagram showing the earlier and the later glacier records together
upon the same limestone surface | [304] |
| 331. | Map to show the outcroppings of peculiar rock types in the region
of the Great Lakes, and some localities where “drift copper”
has been collected | [305] |
| 332. | Map of the “bowlder train” from Iron Hill, Rhode Island | [306] |
| 333. | Shapes and approximate natural sizes of some of the diamonds from
the Great Lakes region | [307] |
| 334. | Glacial map of a portion of the Great Lakes region | [308] |
| 335. | Section in coarse till | [310] |
| 336. | Sketch map of portions of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, showing the
distribution of moraines | [312] |
| 337. | Map of the vicinity of Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin, partly covered by
the continental glacier | [313] |
| 338. | Moraine with outwash apron in front | [313] |
| 339. | Fosse between an outwash plain and a moraine | [314] |
| 340. | View along an esker in southern Maine | [315] |
| 341. | Outline map of moraines and eskers in Finland | [315] |
| 342. | Sketch maps showing the relationships of drumlins and eskers | [316] |
| 343. | View of a drumlin, showing an opening in the till | [317] |
| 344. | Outline map of the front of the Green Bay lobe to show the relationships
of drumlins, moraines, outwash plains, and ground moraine | [317] |
| 345. | Character profiles referable to continental glacier | [318] |
| 346. | View of the flood plain of the ancient Illinois River near Peoria | [320] |
| 347. | Broadly terraced valleys which mark the floods that once issued from
the continental glacier of North America | [321] |
| 348. | Border drainage about the retreating ice front south of Lake Erie | [321] |
| 349. | The “parallel roads” of Glen Roy in the Scottish Highlands | [322] |
| 350. | Map of Glen Roy and neighboring valleys of the Scottish Highlands | [322] |
| 351. | Three successive diagrams to set forth the late glacial lake history of
the Scottish glens | [324] |
| 352. | Harvesting time on the fertile floor of the glacial Lake Agassiz | [325] |
| 353. | Map of Lake Agassiz | [325] |
| 354. | Map showing some of the beaches of Lake Agassiz and its outlet | [326] |
| 355. | Narrows of the Warren River where it passed between jaws of granite
and gneiss | [327] |
| 356. | Map of the valley of the Warren River near Minneapolis | [327] |
| 357. | Portion of the Herman beach on the shore of the former Lake Agassiz | [328] |
| 358. | Map of the continental glacier of North America when it covered the
entire St. Lawrence basin | [329] |
| 359. | Outline map of the early Lake Maumee | [330] |
| 360. | Map to show the first stages of the ice-dammed lakes within the
St. Lawrence basin | [330] |
| 361. | Outline map of the later Lake Maumee and its outlet | [332] |
| 362. | Outline map of lakes Whittlesey and Saginaw | [333] |
| 363. | Map of the glacial Lake Warren | [333] |
| 364. | Map of the glacial Lake Algonquin | [334] |
| 365. | Outline map of the Nipissing Great Lakes | [335] |
| 366. | Probable preglacial drainage of the upper Ohio region | [337] |
| 367. | Diagrams to illustrate the episodes in the recent history of a Connecticut
river | [338] |
| 368. | The notched rock headland of Boyer Bluff on Lake Michigan | [341] |
| 369. | View of Mackinac Island from the direction of St. Ignace | [342] |
| 370. | The “Sugar Loaf”, a stack of Lake Algonquin upon Mackinac Island | [342] |
| 371. | Beach ridges in series on Mackinac Island | [343] |
| 372. | Notched stack of the Nipissing Great Lakes at St. Ignace | [343] |
| 373. | Series of diagrams to illustrate the evolution of ideas concerning the
uplift of the lake region since the Ice Age | [344] |
| 374. | Map of the Great Lakes region to show the isobases and hinge lines of
uptilt | [345] |
| 375. | Series of diagrams to indicate the nature of the recovery of the crust
by uplift when unloaded of an ice mantle | [346] |
| 376. | Portion of the Inner Sandusky Bay, for comparison of the shore line
of 1820 with that of to-day | [350] |
| 377. | Ideal cross section of the Niagara Gorge to show the marginal terrace | [353] |
| 378. | View of the bed of the Niagara River above the cataract where water
has been drained off | [353] |
| 379. | View of the Falls of St. Anthony in 1851 | [354] |
| 380. | Ideal section to show the nature of the drilling process beneath the
cataract | [355] |
| 381. | Plan and section of the gorge, showing how the depth is proportional
to the width | [355] |
| 382. | Comparative views of the Canadian Falls in 1827 and 1895 | [356] |
| 383. | Map to show the recession of the Canadian Fall | [357] |
| 384. | Comparison of the present with the future falls | [358] |
| 385. | Bird’s-eye view of the captured Canadian Fall at Wintergreen Flats | [358] |
| 386. | Map of the Whirlpool Basin | [360] |
| 387. | Map of the cuestas which have played so important a part in fixing
the boundaries of the lake basins | [361] |
| 388. | Bird’s-eye view of the cuestas south of Lakes Ontario and Erie | [362] |
| 389. | Sketch map of the greater portion of the Niagara Gorge to illustrate
Niagara history | [363] |
| 390. | Snowdrift hollowing its bed by nivation | [368] |
| 391. | Amphitheater formed upon a drift site in northern Lapland | [369] |
| 392. | The marginal crevasse on the highest margin of a glacier | [370] |
| 393. | Niches and cirques in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming | [371] |
| 394. | Subordinate cirques in the amphitheater on the west face of the
Wannehorn | [371] |
| 395. | “Biscuit cutting” effect of glacial sculpture in the Uinta Mountains
of Wyoming | [372] |
| 396. | Diagram to show the cause of the hyperbolic curve of cols | [372] |
| 397. | A col in the Selkirks | [373] |
| 398. | Diagrams to illustrate the formation of comb ridges, cols, and horns | [374] |
| 399. | The U-shaped
Kern Valley in the Sierra Nevadas of California | [375] |
| 400. | Glaciated valley wall, showing the sharp line which separates the
abraded from the undermined rock surface | [375] |
| 401. | View of the Vale of Chamonix from the séracs of the Glacier des
Bossons | [376] |
| 402. | Map of an area near the continental divide in Colorado | [377] |
| 403. | Gorge of the Albula River in the Engadine cut through a rock bar | [378] |
| 404. | Idealistic sketch, showing glaciated and nonglaciated side valleys | [378] |
| 405. | Character profiles sculptured by mountain glaciers | [379] |
| 406. | Flat dome shaped under the margin of a Norwegian ice cap | [379] |
| 407. | Two views which illustrate successive stages in the shaping of tinds | [380] |
| 408. | Schematic diagram to bring out the relationships of the various types
of mountain glaciers | [383] |
| 409. | Map of the Malaspina Glacier of Alaska | [384] |
| 410. | Map of the Baltoro Glacier of the Himalayas | [385] |
| 411. | View of the Triest Glacier, a hanging glacieret | [385] |
| 412. | Map of the Harriman Fjord Glacier of Alaska | [386] |
| 413. | Map of the Rotmoos Glacier, a radiating glacier of Switzerland | [386] |
| 414. | Outline map of the Asulkan Glacier in the Selkirks, a horseshoe
glacier | [387] |
| 415. | Outline map of the Illecillewaet Glacier of the Selkirks, an inherited-basin
glacier | [388] |
| 416. | Diagram to illustrate the surface flow of glaciers | [390] |
| 417. | Diagram to show the transformation of crevasses into séracs | [391] |
| 418. | View of the Glacier des Bossons, showing the position of accidents
to Alpinists | [392] |
| 419. | Lines of flow upon the surface of the Hintereisferner Glacier in the
Alps | [393] |
| 420. | Lateral and medial moraines of the Mer de Glace and its tributaries | [393] |
| 421. | Ideal cross section of a mountain glacier | [394] |
| 422. | Diagrams to illustrate the melting effects upon glacier ice of rock
fragments of different sizes | [394] |
| 423. | Small glacier table upon the Great Aletsch Glacier | [395] |
| 424. | Effects of differential melting and subsequent refreezing upon a glacier
surface | [396] |
| 425. | Dirt cone with its casing in part removed | [396] |
| 426. | Schematic diagram to show the manner of formation of glacier cornices | [397] |
| 427. | Superglacial stream upon the Great Aletsch Glacier | [398] |
| 428. | Ideal form of the surface left on the site of a piedmont glacier apron | [399] |
| 429. | Map of the site of the earlier piedmont glacier of the Upper Rhine | [399] |
| 430. | Diagram and map to bring out the characteristics of newland lakes | [402] |
| 431. | View of the Warner Lakes, Oregon | [402] |
| 432. | Schematic diagram to illustrate the characteristics of basin-range lakes | [403] |
| 433. | Schematic diagram of rift-valley lakes and the valley of the Jordan | [403] |
| 434. | Map of the rift-valley lakes of East Central Africa | [404] |
| 435. | Earthquake lakes formed in 1811 in the flood plain of the Lower
Mississippi | [404] |
| 436. | View of a crater lake in Costa Rica | [405] |
| 437. | Diagrams to illustrate the characteristics of crater lakes | [406] |
| 438. | View of Snag Lake, a coulée lake in California | [406] |
| 439. | Diagrams to illustrate the characteristics of morainal lakes | [407] |
| 440. | Diagram to show the manner of formation of pit lakes | [408] |
| 441. | Diagrams to illustrate the characteristics of pit lakes | [408] |
| 442. | Diagram to show the manner of formation of glint lakes | [409] |
| 443. | Map of a series of glint lakes on the boundary of Sweden and Norway | [409] |
| 444. | Map of ice-dam lakes near the Norwegian boundary of Sweden | [410] |
| 445. | Wave-cut terrace of a former ice-dam lake in Sweden | [410] |
| 446. | View of the Márjelen Lake from the summit of the Eggishorn | [411] |
| 447. | Diagrams to illustrate the arrangement and the characters of rock-basin
lakes | [412] |
| 448. | Convict Lake, a valley-moraine lake of California | [413] |
| 449. | Lake basins produced by successive slides from the steep walls of a
glaciated mountain valley | [414] |
| 450. | Lake Garda, a border lake upon the site of a piedmont apron | [414] |
| 451. | Diagrams to bring out the characteristics of ox-bow lakes | [415] |
| 452. | Diagrammatic section to illustrate the formation of saucer-like basins
between the levees of streams on a flood plain | [415] |
| 453. | Saucer lakes upon the bed of the former river Warren | [416] |
| 454. | Levee lakes developed in series within meanders in a delta plain | [417] |
| 455. | Raft lakes along the banks of the Red River in Arkansas and Louisiana | [418] |
| 456. | Map of the Swiss lakes Thun and Brienz | [419] |
| 457. | Delta lakes formed at the mouth of the Mississippi | [419] |
| 458. | Delta lakes at the margin of the Nile delta | [420] |
| 459. | Diagrams to illustrate the characteristics of barrier lakes | [420] |
| 460. | Dune lakes on the coast of France | [421] |
| 461. | Sink lakes in Florida, with a schematic diagram to illustrate the
manner of their formation | [421] |
| 462. | Map of the Arve and the Upper Rhone | [426] |
| 463. | View of the Arve and the Rhone at their junction | [427] |
| 464. | A village in Switzerland built upon a strath at the head of Lake
Poschiavo | [428] |
| 465. | View of the floating bog and surrounding zones of vegetation in a
small glacial lake | [429] |
| 466. | Diagram to show how small lakes are transformed into peat bogs | [430] |
| 467. | Map to show the anomalous position of the delta in Lake St. Clair | [431] |
| 468. | A bowlder wall upon the shore of a small lake | [432] |
| 469. | Diagrams to show the effect of ice shove in producing ice ramparts
upon the shores of lakes | [433] |
| 470. | Various forms of ice ramparts | [433] |
| 471. | Map of Lake Mendota, showing the position of the ridge which forms
from ice expansion and the ice ramparts upon the shores | [434] |
| 472. | The great multiple mountain arc of Sewestan, British India | [436] |
| 473. | Diagrams to illustrate the theories of origin of mountain arcs | [437] |
| 474. | Festoons of mountain arcs about the borders of the Pacific Ocean | [438] |
| 475. | The interrupted Armorican Mountains common to western Europe
and eastern North America | [438] |
| 476. | A zone of diverse displacement in the western United States | [439] |
| 477. | Section of an East African block mountain | [439] |
| 478. | Tilted crust blocks in the Queantoweap valley | [440] |
| 479. | View of the laccolite of the Carriso Mountain | [441] |
| 480. | Map of laccolitic mountains | [441] |
| 481. | Ideal sections of laccolite and bysmalite | [442] |
| 482. | The gabled façade largely developed in desert landscapes | [443] |
| 483. | Balloon view of the Mythen in Switzerland | [444] |
| 484. | The battlement type of erosion mountain | [445] |
| 485. | Symmetrically formed low islands repeated in ranks upon Temagami
Lake, Ontario | [445] |
| 486. | Forms of crystals of a number of minerals | [454] |
| 487. | Forms of crystals of a number of minerals | [457] |
| 488. | A student’s contour map | [469] |
| 489. | Models to represent outcrops of rock | [472] |
| 490. | Special laboratory table set with a problem in geological mapping
which is solved in [Figs. 47] and [48] | [472] |
| 491. | Three field maps to be used as suggestions in arranging laboratory
table for problems in the preparation of areal geological maps | [473] |
| 492. | Sketch map of Western Scotland and the Inner Hebrides to
show location of some points of special geological interest | [481] |
| 493. | Outline map of a geological pilgrimage across the continent of Europe | [483] |