 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., Alluo, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see vol. ii.... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., alluo, to wash upon. For a further explanation of the term, as used in this work, see Vol. II.... | |
 | Virginia Geological Survey - Geology - 1836 - 552 pages
...Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Etym., alluo, to wash upon. •Amorphous. Bodies devoid of regular form. Etym., a, a, without, and... | |
 | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania - Geology - 1836 - 686 pages
...Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter, which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes- or seas. Etym. alluo, to wash upon. Anticlinal Axis. — If a range of hills, or a valley, be composed of strata,... | |
 | geologocal survey of pennsylvania - Geology - 1838 - 446 pages
...Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Eiym. alluo, to wash upon. Anticlinal Axis. If a ranga of hills, or a valley, be composed of strata,... | |
 | George Roberts - 1839 - 208 pages
...wash upon) ; earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other matter, which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not...submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. The French style alluvium terrains de transport. ALUM BAY ; a well-known locality in the western part of... | |
 | Henry Stephens - Business & Economics - 1844 - 738 pages
...alluvium, according to the definition of that deposite given by Mr Lyell, who considers it to consist of " such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas, — I say permanently submerged, in order to distinguish between alluviums and regular subaqueous deposites.... | |
 | India - 1848 - 608 pages
...tmfpa a stair, the rocks to which it is applied frequently being arranged in the form of Min or steps. Upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas." Of Diluvium or drift, we shall say nothing, as it occurs in latitudes with which the " geology of India"... | |
 | Henry Stephens - Agriculture - 1852 - 732 pages
...alluvium, according to the definition of that deposite given by Mr Lyell, who considers it to consist of " such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether...permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas, — I say permanently submerged, in order to distinguish between alluviums and regular subaqueous deposites.... | |
 | Henry Stephens - Agriculture - 1852 - 1144 pages
...alluvium, according to the definition of that deposit given by Mr. Lyell, who considers it to consist of " such transported matter as has been thrown down, whether by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land uot permanently submerged beueatb the waters of lakes or seas — I say permanently submerged, iu order... | |
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Earth, sand, gravel, stones, and other transported matter which has been washed away and thrown down by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. 
